stele
English Thesaurus
1. an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | antiquity, |
| definition | : | an artifact surviving from the past (noun.artifact) |
| hypernym | : | stone, |
| definition | : | building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose (noun.artifact) |
| instance hyponym | : | rosetta stone, |
| definition | : | a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics (noun.communication) |
2. the usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | vascular tissue, |
| definition | : | tissue that conducts water and nutrients through the plant body in higher plants (noun.plant) |
| part meronym | : | axis, |
| definition | : | the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged (noun.plant) |
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