See stele in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Sundanese",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "prasasti"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "stele"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "ciṟpattūṇ",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "சிற்பத்தூண்"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "sṭīlē",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "స్టీలే"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sì-laa jaa-réuk",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "ศิลาจารึก"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "stel"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "stela"
},
{
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "skn",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "𐎒𐎋𐎐"
},
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "stéla",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сте́ла"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "bia"
},
{
"code": "war",
"lang": "Waray-Waray",
"sense": "(archaeology) tall, slender stone monument",
"word": "estela"
}
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"stele"
],
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"word": "actinostele"
},
{
"word": "atactostele"
},
{
"word": "dictyostele"
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{
"word": "eustele"
},
{
"word": "haplostele"
},
{
"word": "plectostele"
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{
"word": "protostele"
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{
"word": "siphonostele"
},
{
"word": "solenostele"
}
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"3": "στήλη",
"4": "",
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"ref": "1895, Sydney Howard Vines, A Students' Text-book of Botany, section 179:",
"text": "The stele may have—in different structures—one to many protoxylem (primitive wood) groups, and is accordingly described as monarch...diarch...triarch...tetrarch...polyarch.",
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{
"ref": "1898, Eduard Strasburger et al., translated by Hobart Charles Porter, A Text-book of Botany, section 109:",
"text": "The so-called central cylinder, for which Van Tieghem has proposed the name stele (column).",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(botany) central core of the root and shoot system",
"word": "varsi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(botany) central core of the root and shoot system",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "stela"
},
{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "(botany) central core of the root and shoot system",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "estela"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(botany) central core of the root and shoot system",
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"neuter"
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"word": "stel"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "(botany) central core of the root and shoot system",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cilindru central"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stelʹ",
"sense": "(botany) central core of the root and shoot system",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "стель"
}
],
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"stele"
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