Usually means: Central core of vascular plants.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. stele: Merriam-Webster
  2. stele: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stele: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stele: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stele: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stele, stele: Wordnik
  7. stele: Wiktionary
  8. stele: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. stele: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. stele: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. stele: Dictionary.com
  12. stele: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Stele (biology), Stele: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Stele: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. stele: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. stele: Rhymezone
  17. Stele: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. stele: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. stele: FreeDictionary.org
  20. stele: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. stele: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stele: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. -stele, stele-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stele: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See stelai as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (stele)

noun:  (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
noun:  (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
noun:  (architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
noun:  (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

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