Definitions for flabellum

flabellum fla·bel·lum

Spelling: [fluh-bel-uh m]
IPA: /fləˈbɛl əm/

Flabellum is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in flabellum (abeflllmu).

Definitions for flabellum

noun

  1. a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
  2. a fan-shaped part.

Origin of flabellum

1865-70; Latin flābellum fan, diminutive of flābra breezes, equivalent to flā(re) to blow2 + -bra, plural of -brum noun suffix o

Examples for flabellum

The goddess of victory in the form of a vulture holding a flabellum or fan of feathers and a signet-ring in each claw.

In England the flabellum was in use even in remote parishes.

As belonging to this family, we present here illustrations of flabellum pavoninum, Lesson (Fig. 67).

The large organ of the flabellum and the branchial organs he has not taken into consideration.

Fl, The flabellum which becomes the epipodite of higher forms.

A special sense-organ, such as the flabellum of Limulus or the pecten of scorpion, remains and gives rise to the auditory organ.

The flabellum is used, though now rarely made of precious metal.

A portion of the cylindrical stem of a flabellum or aspergillum, probably French of the twelfth century, is in the British Museum.

The sixth pair have no chel, but at the base have a peculiar process termed the flabellum.

Upon the completion of the victory, four fan-bearers, each with crook and flabellum, offer the spoils of conquest to the king.

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