STA- 303 STE- 
a stirrup.] The stirrup-shaped  stellar,—ste 
innermost bone of the middle ear stellate (erstan) a. [L. sted/a, a star.] 
: e operculu or in- Astral; radiating; star-shaped ; 
0 
stasimorphy (etas'imorf)) * z yer 
stasts, —, morphe. 
deviation in for 
development (470. zy 
——— (su oblast n. (Gk. statos, 
= tio ; las stos, bud.] in gar 
zed perl or winter- egg” of s 
Polyz0a, ee on the fmicalas 
an a t free on the death of the 
ts oO rganism 00 
statocone (stat’6ko 2 Nn. [Gk statos, 
stationary ; Zonos. e. 
minute rechites contained 
m due As seen 
[Gk. statos, 
A 
stacea 
of perception of the 
position of the body in space 
(zool.). 
seam (stat’olith) 7. Gk. — 
statio 
tained in a s cre (zool. 
—— (stat'6rab) 2 Bes states 
tionary ; rhadbdos, J 
Tracho medusae, a sleet Sees 
io carrying the _ statolith 
zool.). 
steapsin (stéip’sin) #. 
A — 
tallow ; fit digestion.] A diges 
tive ferment secreted by the pan- 
creas (ph ys.) 
stearin (sté rin) n. a stear, -— 
shies te ars of a fat; 
mpon of many fats, chat: 
oie gusts (phy 
stegocarpous (Ss ~ ok) « [Gk. 
stegein gee karpos, ” fruit.] 
ing a capeele ’ with operculum 
ae peristome (4o7.). 
stelar system,—of plants, the vascu- 
lar and hanced conjunctive 
tiss 
ue (do7.). : 
stele (stel) 7. [Gk. see, a pillar. ] 
A vascu- 
lar tissue containe 
root of plants, developed from the 
plerorne (b0t.). 
appl. 
steliiform,—stellate. 
stem (stém Abas nm. [A.S. stemm, a tree- 
stem he trunk of a tree; the 
main axis #% a — 
mi cell in which 
all = chromatin se tree erved, and 
which arise the germ cells ; 
ith Comte “coll (cyz.). 
without a stalk ; acaules- 
sere “(bot). 
temma gris nm. [Gk. stemma, a 
garland.] A simple = or ocellus 
of the ocelli 
ool.). 
; - 
marine —_ adaptable 
ange of salinity ; 
cj. euryhaline (2 
stenopetalous ste pe — a. [Gk. 
talon, a 
stenos, narrow leaf. ] 
With narrow 
stenophyllous (stén’ ofl’ iis) a. [Gk. 
stenos, — ; phyllon, leaf.) 
Narrow-lea 
stenosepalous heen a 
[Gk. stenos, sepalon, a 
sepal.] With pom ’ sepals 
stenostomat eer a 
N arrow 
stephanion  (tefin nm [Gk. steph- 
cro he point where 
te aaenar een ral ridge is 
crossed by the icteal suture 
(anai.). 
marium (stérkéma’ psc nm. [L. 
ng.] The 
dun 
protoplasm, “ 
ineoego (zool. 
reid bundl on, —bands or bundles 
‘of esaeigy ne or fibres (407). 
stereome (stér’é [Gk. —— 
solid. } Soareackyioation and c 
along with 
stereoplasm (stér’eé6plazm) 7. [Gk. 
