stella
/ˈstɛl.ə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
name
A female given name from Latin.
name
A town in South Africa.
name
A town in Oneida County, Wisconsin.
Example Sentences
- "Plants of this collection are several decimeters taller; the pedicels are more remote in the inforescence; the stellae are larger and form a less dense cover on plant parts, and the siliques are slightly larger than in the usual form of the species."
- "Stems and young branches terete, viscid, densely ferruginous-tomentose with sessile to short-stalked pauciradiate stellae bearing greatly prolonged 4-6-celled midpoints, these 0.1-0.2 cm long, gland-tipped, strongly armed with ferruginous laterally compressed prickles, these broad-based and sparsely glandular in the basal quarter."
- "The morphological and statistic analyses are also given to the stellae structure of Olivooides and Punctatus, which indicates that this structure is a result of adaptive evolu- tion to a lifestyle of fast-attaching after hatching, probably with the function of mucilage secretion."
- "What lovely names for girls there are! / There's Stella like the Evening Star,"
- "Sheila goes out with her mate Stella / It gets poured all over her fella"
- "I'm going to have a few Stellas tonight."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
- Slang
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
stella octangula
Stella Maris