The usually cylindrical central vascular portion of the axis of a vascular plant

Usage examples of stele.

Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.

Raffaello led them into the Palazzo Maffei, where they could inspect the Etruscan inscriptions on a funeral stele and on a statue of a mother nurturing a child.

They also related that the Saite Tafnakhti, returning from an expedition against the Arabs, during which he had been obliged to renounce the pomp and luxuries of royal life, had solemnly cursed him, and had caused his imprecations to be inscribed upon a stele set up in the temple of Amon at Thebes.

Professor Mazar argues that this stele supports the traditional view as given in the Bible.

The lenkthe of an eln3erde the large hede hade, The grayn al of grene stele and of golde hewen, The bit burnyst bry3t, with a brod egge As wel schapen to schere as scharp rasores, The stele of a stif staf the sturne hit bi grypte, That wat3 wounden wyth yrn to the wandez ende, And al bigrauen with grene in gracios werkes.

Maugree thyn heed thou most for indigence Or stele, or begge, or borwe thy despence!

The squiggly text on which the doctor was lavishing such calligraphic effort was simply Trinket's own impromptu version of the stele he had spotted in the courtyard of the Monastery of Universal Salvation, the version he had invented for the benefit of Fat Dhuta.

To her surprise, Firebird knew it: Count Doming Stele, Del­ia's elder brother and heir of his house, of the Third Wing, Raptor Phalanx.

Casting a handful of sand back on the stele and then carefully brushing it away so that whatever sand remained lay in the groovings, Aravan revealed its message.

Stele and Alpha Squad are tasked with pushing back Zaarin's forces from factory ZA-13, a starfighter hyperdrive manufacturing plant which Zaarin has taken over, and, if possible, to disable some of Zaarin's ships for analysis.

Nor needs none shaft ne stele from Phenicia or Little Asia to obelise on the spout, neither pobalclock neither folksstone, nor sunkenness in Tomar's Wood to bewray how erpressgangs score off the rued.

She'd seen two of the main temples and one acropolis, not to mention a number of steles and related exhibits.

She crouched to examine massive fallen stone steles, patterned by Maya glyphs.

A small group of Maya men and women in the simple clothing of farmers and woodsmen, whose features were the same as those on the ancient steles and temples.

Sometimes he ran along a web of narrow paths between the tombs and steles of the City of the Dead, pursued by men who had by grotesque mutilation merged themselves with machines.