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  the Façade and The Stele of The Tomb Of Phtahshopsisu at Saqqara
• WordNet 3.6
  • n stele an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
  • n stele the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant
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• • n Stele stēl A stale, or handle; a stalk.
  • n Stele stē"lē Same as Stela. "One of these steles , containing the Greek version of the ordinance, has recently been discovered."
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• • n stele An old spelling of steal, steal.
  • n stele An obsolete form of stale.
  • n stele In archaeology: An upright slab or pillar, often crowned with a rich anthemion, and sometimes bearing more or less elaborate sculpture or a painted scene, commonly used among the ancient Greeks as a gravestone.
  • n stele A similar slab or pillar serving as a milestone, to bear an inscription in some public place, or for a like purpose.
  • n stele In botany, the axial cylinder of a stem, beginning as the plerome (see plerome, 2, and plerome-sheath) and passing into the older tissues which supply the vascular tissue of the plant.
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• • n Stele stē′lē an upright stone slab or tablet, either sepulchral or on which laws, decrees, &c. are inscribed—also Stē′la
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