Definitions for stellate

stellate stel·late

Spelling: [stel-it, -eyt]
IPA: /ˈstɛl ɪt, -eɪt/

Stellate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 180 anagrams from letters in stellate (aeellstt).

Definitions for stellate

adjective

  1. like the form of a conventionalized figure of a star; star-shaped.

Origin of stellate

1490-1500; Latin stellātus starry, equivalent to stell(a) star + -ātus -ate1

Examples for stellate

Each branch bears a stellate terminal spathilla, composed of ten to twenty conical teeth, which radiate in all directions.

I never saw a case of stellate fracture, and by this my experience in the case of the ilium was confirmed.

In the stellate columbines (Aquilegia) of gardens the tubular petals are replaced by flat ones often in increased numbers.

Again they were seen in the palms and soles, but here more readily tended to assume the stellate forms.

The flowers are stellate, cymose, on stems rising from the heart of the leafy rosettes.

A tumor of stellate or polyhedral cells in a matrix of mucin.

(a) Naked or with minute stellate ossifications as in the Polyodontidae.

The passage from one to the other may be seen in the stellate form of the conidia of Nyctalis.

Some, like radiolarians and star-fish, have a stellate form.

If the connexion is only with one, the vesicle is called unipolar; if with two, bipolar; if with many, multipolar or stellate.

Word Value for stellate
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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