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May 27, 2012
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ste•le



Pronunciation: (stē'lē, stēl for 1–3; stēl, stē'lē for 4), [key]
—n.,
—pl. ste•laiPronunciation: (stē'lī), [key] ste•lesPronunciation: (stē'lēz, stēlz). [key]
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).

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StelazineSt. Elias, Mount
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