Definitions for bulla

bulla bul·la

Spelling: [boo l-uh, buhl-uh
IPA: /ˈbʊl ə, ˈbʌl ə/

Bulla is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in bulla (abllu).

Definitions for bulla

noun

  1. a seal attached to an official document, as a papal bull.
  2. an ancient Roman pendant, consisting of a rounded box containing an amulet.
  3. Pathology. a large vesicle.
  4. Zoology. a blisterlike or bubblelike prominence of a bone, as that of the tympanic bone in the skull of certain mammals.

Origin of bulla

1840-50; Latin: bubble, also stud, boss, knob (whence Medieval Latin bulla official seal)

Examples for bulla

The bulla is divided, as in the Cats, but is externally constricted.

Bulleana (plates, fig. 247 to 253), contains the genera bulla and bulla.

The bulla attains its maximum development in Chinchilla and Dipus.

Both Beamish and bulla, borne down by the weight of numbers, had been secured.

As in Dorcopsis, but not as in Macropus, the bulla tympani is not swollen.

The wood-cut illustrating this genus has the appearance of a bulla.

bullate, appearing as if blistered or bladdery (from bulla, a bubble).

They were generally enclosed in a bulla, and suspended from the neck.

"But we're getting all we can out of the old hooker as it is," bulla objected.

The Ovula were placed by Linnus in his genus bulla, from which they are very remote.

Word Value for bulla
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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