| 单词 | stele |
| 释义 | stele —stelar /stee"leuhr/, adj. /stee"lee, steel/ for 1-3; /steel, stee"lee/ for 4, n. , pl. stelai /stee"luy/, steles /stee"leez, steelz/. 1. an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like. 2. Archit. a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like. 3. (in ancient Rome) a burial stone. 4. Bot. the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of the higher plants. Also, stela (for defs. 1-3). [1810-20; < Gk stéle, akin to histánai to make stand, L stare to STAND] |
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