Pronunciations (3)
-
/ˈstiːli/
Pronunciation notes
- modern
-
/stiːl/
Pronunciation notes
- modern
-
stiːl
Noun
An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- Examples
-
A superior class of members...had their names inscribed upon a marble stélé or column.
It appears, that when any one of the family died, a stelè to his memory was added to the tomb.
More examples (2)
In Egypt [obelisks] belonged to the class of steles (commemorative pillars).
The Australian stele, or grave-pillar.
Any carved or engraved surface.
Usage- Uncommon
- Examples
-
Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff.
An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
Usage- Obsolete
- Examples
-
Stele. The ornaments on the ridge of a Greek temple, answering to the antefixæ on the summit of the flank entablatures, are thus designated.
Noun
The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
- Examples
-
More examples (1)
The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.
The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).
Noun
the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
- Broader terms
an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
- Synonyms