Crossword clues for stellate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stellate \Stel"late\, Stellated \Stel"la*ted\, a. [L. stellatus, p. p. of stellare to set or cover with stars, from stella a star. See Stellar.]
Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
(Bot.) Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "starry, star-spangled," from Latin stellatus "covered with stars," past participle of stellare "to set with stars," from stella (see star (n.)). Meaning "star-shaped" is recorded from 1660s.
Wiktionary
a. Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
WordNet
adj. arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial pattern of main highways" [syn: radial]
Wikipedia
Stellate, meaning star-shaped, may refer to:
- Stellate cell
- Stellate ganglion
- Stellate reticulum
- Stellate veins
- Stellate trichomes (hairs) on plants
- Stellate laceration or incision Wound#Open
- Stellate fan-shaped Espalier (one form of a pruned shape of a Tree). See: Fruit tree forms or Tree shaping#Espalier
Usage examples of "stellate".
Then, a bell sounds, and acrasin is released by special cells toward which the others converge in stellate ranks, touch, fuse together, and construct the slug, solid as a trout.
All of the Magistrates saw the crimson-edged, ragged stellate wound where his chin had been.
Giant squids swim by, moving in complex, stellate dances, hundreds of individuals at a time sharing information in the data-dense flickering of their chromatophores.
It awoke and smiled and raised its stellate hands to the faces that peered over the side of the basket.
THE FIRST BLOOD IS THREE feet inside the front door, a single drop the size of a dime, perfectly round with a stellate margin reminiscent of a buzzsaw blade.
Orchids, old gold and violet, cling to the rocks with the white claws of the sea snatching at their toughened roots, and beyond the extreme verge of ferns and orchids on abrupt sea-scarred boulders are the stellate shadows of the whorled foliage of the umbrella tree, in varied pattern, precise and clean cut and in delightful commingling and confusion.
Skarrian dead and dying, and turned to scream curses at the Stellate Dorn.
No one stopped them, not even the blue-caped Arrogators surrounding the Stellate Dorn.
A jewel-encrusted chariot of some early Sanctor or stellate rested, wheels up, amidst a scattering of swirlstone strongboxes.
Grouin introduced as the Lord Stellate Vanxor and the Lord Convocator Cherblin.
Recent research in neuroanatomy has characterised the nature of the stellate ganglial networks responsible for gorgonism in patients with advanced astrocytoma affecting the cingulate gyrus.
And standing among the Garda Stellates, the Lord Convocators, Grouin's seneschals, was my brother.
There's a nerve bundle called the stellate ganglion that wasn't there.