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TABULA
Etymology
Noun
tabula (plural tabulae)
A table or writing-tablet.
A legal record.
A frontal.
(zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
Anagrams
• ablaut
Source: Wiktionary
Tab"u*la, n.; pl. Tabulæ. Etym: [L.]
1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa ( Etym: [L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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