Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Arranged or shaped like a star; radiating from a center.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Star-like in form; star-shaped; arranged in the form of a conventional star; radiating from a common center like the rays or points of a star: as, stellate leaves; the stellate groups of natrolite crystals.
- noun A stellate microsclere, or flesh-spicule in the form of a star.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a star; pointed or radiated, like the emblem of a star.
- adjective (Bot.) Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
star , having points, or rays radiating from a center.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
Etymologies
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Examples
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* Unusual pattern ( "stellate" or star-like) in iris of the eye
The Composed Gentleman talk 2010
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Most of the fibrogenic cells in the liver are a-smooth muscle actin-expressing myofibroblasts and most are derived from the transdifferentiation of hepatic stellate cells.
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Most of the fibrogenic cells in the liver are a-smooth muscle actin-expressing myofibroblasts and most are derived from the transdifferentiation of hepatic stellate cells.
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And now it looks as if they just might have found an answer, something called a "stellate ganglion block," which involves injecting a small amount of local anaesthetic into a complex of nerves located in the neck.
Needle to the Neck Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Therapeutic ultrasound is not recommended during pregnancy, over tissues such as the eyes, heart, spinal column, growing bones, testes, epiphyseal plates, carotid sinuses, cervical stellate ganglion, and vagus nerve.
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs: The Adventures of a Preterm Daddy: Part I 2009
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It features the famous black and white picture of Che — except this time there are two stellate black marks on his forehead bullet holes.
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Seven humerus bones formed a stellate pattern with a skull at their center, supported in turn by what might have been portions of sternum or scapula, then a vertical column of more humerus bones, which met at last a semicircle of vertebrae curving upward on either side and ending in a pair of skulls.
The Black Angel John Connolly 2005
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These are placed, six together, in the interior of long-stalked, ovate, mucronate, smooth, deep brown follicles, of a tough papery texture, and lined with a thin fur of stellate hairs.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Ox-rays (UROGYMNUS ASPERRIMUS) grow to a great size, their backs being so armoured with thick-set stellate bucklers on a horn-like skin, that to secure them a heavy-hefted weapon and a strong right arm are necessary.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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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.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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