Obs. [ad. Gr. στελεχίτης (sense 1), f. στέλεχος crown of a root, trunk: see -ITE.]

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  1.  One of the kinds of storax enumerated by Dioscorides.

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In recent Dicts.

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  2.  Used (after Aldrovandus) for ENTROCHITE.

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1681.  Grew, Musæum, III. § i. ii. 270. The Stelentrochite. By some, called Stelechites.

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1695.  Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, IV. 181. The Selenites, Belemnites, Stelechites.

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