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stele
[ stee-lee, steel steel, stee-lee ]
noun
- an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Architecture. a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like.
- (in ancient Rome) a burial stone.
- Botany. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants.
stele
/ ˈstiËlÉ™; ˈstiËlɪ; stiËl /
noun
- an upright stone slab or column decorated with figures or inscriptions, common in prehistoric times
- a prepared vertical surface that has a commemorative inscription or design, esp one on the face of a building
- the conducting tissue of the stems and roots of plants, which is in the form of a cylinder, principally containing xylem, phloem, and pericycle See also protostele siphonostele
stele
/ ²õ³Ùŧ±ô,²õ³Ùŧ′±ôŧ /
- The central core of primary vascular tissues in the stem or root of a vascular plant, consisting of xylem and phloem together with pith.
Derived Forms
- stelar, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ù±ð·±ô²¹°ù [stee, -ler], adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stele1
Example Sentences
The room’s most impressive object is a 5th century BC carved marble stele, 8 feet tall.
The priests were standing near a field of ancient obelisks, or stelae, which date from the 4th Century.
In a historic agreement with the Republic of Yemen, the museum will research and temporarily care for the funerary stelae.
The stele was illegally excavated near the ancient city of Zeugma, in what is near Gaziantep, in present-day southeastern Turkey, the police said.
Sixty-five of the artifacts are funerary stelae — stone slabs featuring carved heads — traced to the second half of the first millennium B.C. in northwest Yemen.
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