Stella

Definitions

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. A serving of Stella Artois, a brand of beer.
3. A star-shaped structure.
4. Ellipsis of Stella Artois, a brand of beer.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
5. A black woman who visits Jamaica as a sex tourist; named after the protagonist of How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998).
   Jamaica, derogatory, slang
6. Alternative letter-case form of Stella.
   US, alt-of
7. A town in South Africa.
8. A village in Missouri.
9. A village in Nebraska.
10. A town in Wisconsin.
11. A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ1763).
12. A gold coin with a face value of $4.00 proposed for use in the United States in the 19th century.
    US

Equivalents

9 more languages

العربيةستيلا

Bosanskištela

ČeštinaStela

Galegoestela

Hrvatskištela

МакедонскиЅвездана

PolskistelaStella

РусскийСтелла

Српскиštela

Examples

“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.”

“They often come⟳ thinking that Jamaican women are not going to like⟳ them, because they have⟳ heard from others in the United States that Jamaican women have⟳ a bad attitude and are upset⟳ that these “Stellas” are taking all of their men.”

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