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Webster 1828 Edition
Stellate
STELLATE
, STELLATED,Adj.
1.
Resembling a star; radiated. 2.
In botany, stellate or verticillate leaves are when more leaves than two surround the stem in a whorl, or when they radiate like the spokes of a wheel, or like a star. A stellate bristle is when a little star of smaller hairs is affixed to the end applied also to the stigma. A stellate flower is a radiate flower.