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Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.

Scutellate.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the small postscutellum; a scutella. See Thorax.

To place or fix firmly or permanently. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to stars; astral; as, a stellar figure; stellary orbs. [These soft fires] in part shed down Their stellar virtue. Milton.

Starlike; having similar parts radiating from a common center; as, stellate flowers.

Radiation of light. [Obs.]

Firmly placed or fixed. [Obs.] "The stelled fires" [the stars]. Shak.

The rytina; -- called also stellerine.

A starfish.

An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

A starfish, or brittle star.

Having, or abounding with, stars.

Like a star; star-shaped; radiated.

To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.

Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine.

Having the shape or appearance of little stars; radiated.