a. [f. STELLATE a. + -ED1.]
1. = STELLATE a. 3.
1661. Boyle, Cert. Physiol. Ess. (1669), 57. My own Laboratory has afforded me divers such parcels of Regulus without Mars (some of which I have yet by me very fairly stellated).
c. 1711. Petiver, Gazophyl., IX. xc. Its yellow stellated Flowers adhere to the middle rib of a jagged Membrane.
1785. Martyn, Lett. Bot., xv. (1794), 163. This class comprises another natural order of plants, entitled Stellated, from the manner in which the leaves grow upon the stem.
1788. Blagden, in Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 281. When these stellated crystals once began to form.
1804. Shaw, Gen. Zool., V. 378. Stellated Sturgeon … head subtetragonal and roughened with stellated marks and tubercles.
1821. W. P. C. Barton, Flora N. Amer., I. 87. Sten and branches … densely beset with stellated hairs.
1859. Cayley, Math. Papers (1891), IV. 81. The great stellated dodecahedron.
1892. Crookes, Wagner’s Man. Chem. Technol., 203. That stellated crystalline surface which is preferred in trade.
2. Studded with stars.
1755. B. Martin, Mag. Arts & Sci., 88. The Stellated Planetarium: shewing the Inferior Planets.
1824. J. Johnson, Typogr., I. 490. The back-ground is black, thickly stellated.
Hence Stellatedly adv.
1833. Hooker, in Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. I. 119. Stem … stellatedly branched.
