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“stela”
stele, stela
1. An upright slab bearing sculptured designs or inscriptions. Sometimes loosely applied to any prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., covered with an inscription.
2. In architecture: 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. In botany, a bulky strand or cylinder of vascular tissue contained in the stems and roots of plants, developed from plerome (the core or central part of an apical [tip, summit] meristem [tissue formed at growing points]).
2. In architecture: 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. In botany, a bulky strand or cylinder of vascular tissue contained in the stems and roots of plants, developed from plerome (the core or central part of an apical [tip, summit] meristem [tissue formed at growing points]).
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“stela”
stela (s), stelae (pl)
An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
It was used as a commemorative, or for a similar function, on which was carved an inscription or other design.
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Archeology, Archaeology
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