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Definition of Stellate
1. Adjective. Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center. "Many cities show a radial pattern of main highways"
Definition of Stellate
1. a. Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
Definition of Stellate
1. Adjective. Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stellate
1. shaped like a star [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stellate
Literary usage of Stellate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"36 ; leaves beneath and panicle rufous-stellate tomentose, fruit less than f in.
broad minutely pubescent ribbed, calyx-limb caducous leaving only a scar. ..."
2. A Monograph of the British Spongiadæ by James Scott Bowerbank (1864)
"Simple stellate Spicula. stellate spicula are composed of few or many radii ...
158, Plate VI), in which case they should be designated simply, stellate ..."
3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Biennial or perhaps perennial, often branched at the base; stems 5-7 dm. high,
sparingly retrorse-hairy below; basal leaves 2-4 cm. long, stellate, ..."
4. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"stem leafy, rarely branched: radical stellate hairs: silicic oblong, oblique,
... R. with short stellate pubescent down: ..."
5. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The stellate cell-bodies, an outer and inner layer, together form the stratum
... In the outer layer of the stratum cinereum the stellate cell-bodies are ..."
6. The Microscope: And Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"One of the most curious varieties of form which Vegetable cells present is that
represented in Fig. 151, which constitutes the stellate cell. ..."
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