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Webster 1828 Edition


Stellate

STELLATE

, STELLATED,
Adj.
[L.]
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.

Definition 2024


stellate

stellate

English

Adjective

stellate (comparative more stellate, superlative most stellate)

  1. Shaped like a star, having points, or rays radiating from a center.
    stellate flowers

Related terms


Italian

Adjective

stellate

  1. Feminine plural form of stellato

Latin

Adjective

stellāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of stellātus