Definition of Stellular

1. a. Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.

Definition of Stellular

1. Adjective. Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated. ¹

2. Adjective. Marked with star-like spots of colour. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stellular

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stellular

stellified
stellifies
stelliform
stellify
stellifying
stelling
stellion
stellionate
stellionates
stellions
stellites
stellium
stelliums
stellocentric
stells
stellular (current term)
stellulate
stelocyttarous
stelography
stem
stem-and-leaf
stem-cell
stem-cell research
stem-winder
stem and leaf
stem blight
stem canker
stem cell
stem cells
stem family

Literary usage of Stellular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"Pruinose-puberulent ; the pubescence microscopically minute and partly simple, partly branched or stellular, sometimes a little glandular : stems a span to ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1878)
"jr ч-г Pubescence stellular, or simple and somewhat rigid, or nearly none: leave* from oral to lanceolate-linear and tapering into the petiole, ..."

3. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"... with stellular hairs and finer down and branches roughly ... with subcordate base and usually some of them hastate: calyx stellular-hirsute as well as ..."

4. The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth by Archibald Tucker Ritchie (1850)
"stellular discs aggregated. ... Axis destitute of stellular discs. b. Axis cor- neus and flexible; ..."

5. The Dynamical Theory of the Formation of the Earth by Archibald Tucker Ritchie (1850)
"stellular discs aggregated. ... Axis destitute of stellular discs. 6. Axis cor- neus and flexible; ..."

6. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Stem erect, herbaceous, 8-12 inches high, generally purple, variegated with white stellular pubescence. Leaves nearly sessile, •crowded at the base of the ..."

7. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1888)
"Pruinose-puberulent ; the pubescence microscopically minute and partly simple, partly branched or stellular, sometimes a little glandular : steins a span tu ..."

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