Tabula

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Roman antiquity, a table or tablet; especially, a writing-tablet; hence, a writing or document; a legal instrument or record.
  • noun. In anatomy and zoology, a table or tablet; a hard, flat, expansive surface, as of bone; specifically, in corals, a dissepiment; one of the highly developed and usually transverse or horizontal partitions which cut the septa, when these are present, at right angles, forming a set of floorings or ceilings of certain cavities.
  • noun. Eccles., same as frontal, 5 .
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A table; a tablet.
  • noun. One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A table or tablet.
  • noun. One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
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    "Also, there was this one poem in it called tabula rasa."
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