<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>plural stelae</li><li>stele (defs 1, 2, 3)</li><li>an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like</li><li>a prepared surface on the face of a building, a rock, etc., bearing an inscription or the like</li><li>(in ancient Rome) a burial stone</li><li>(Botany) the central cylinder or cylinders of vascular and related tissue in the stem, root, petiole, leaf, etc., of higher plants</li></ul>