Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Radiately; like a star; in a stellate manner.
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Examples
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The spines are remarkable for their size and strength, those on large plants being 4 in. long by ½ in. broad at the base, gradually narrowing to a stiff point; there are four central spines of this size, the others, of which there are about a dozen, being shorter and thinner, and arranged stellately.
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Female spikelets are collected in large globose heads of stellately spreading very long rigid rod-like processes surrounded by shorter subulate bracts.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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-- A tree with stellately arranged straight branches.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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high, globe-shaped, with a somewhat pointed top, the sides divided into from fourteen to sixteen ridges, with tubercled edges, bearing clusters of about ten strong brown spines, which are stellately arranged, a central one projecting outwards, then suddenly curving upwards, and measuring 3 in. in length.
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