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Meaning of "flabellum" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLABELLUM

From Latin: small fan, from flābra breezes, from flāre to blow.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLABELLUM

fləˈbɛləm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLABELLUM

noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Flabellum is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FLABELLUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Flabellum

A flabellum, in Christian liturgical use, is a fan made of metal, leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects from the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ and from the priest, as well as to show honour. The ceremonial use of such fans dates back to ancient Egypt, and an example was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun. A flabellum is also a fan-shaped structure on the fifth legs of horseshoe crabs.

Definition of flabellum in the English dictionary

The definition of flabellum in the dictionary is a fan-shaped organ or part, such as the tip of the proboscis of a honeybee. Other definition of flabellum is a large ceremonial fan.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLABELLUM

antebellum · capitellum · cerebellum · clitellum · cribellum · flagellum · haustellum · involucellum · labellum · pelham · pellum · phellem · post-bellum · rostellum · sacellum · schellum · scutellum · skellum · skelm · vellum

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLABELLUM

flab · flabbergast · flabbergasted · flabbier · flabbiest · flabbily · flabbiness · flabby · flabella · flabellate · flabellation · flabelliform · flaccid · flaccidity · flaccidly · flaccidness · flack · flacker · flackery · flacket

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLABELLUM

aspergillum · blellum · bryophyllum · castellum · chillum · corallum · intervallum · Luguvallum · macallum · podophyllum · sensillum · spathiphyllum · spirillum · vallum · vexillum

Synonyms and antonyms of flabellum in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «flabellum» into 25 languages

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扇叶
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellation
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flabellum
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Flabellation
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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Flabellation
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flabellum
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flabellation
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फिकटपणा
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flabellation
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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flabellum
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLABELLUM»

Discover the use of flabellum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flabellum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Blackflies (Simuliidae) [Moshki (sem. Simuliidae)]
Large flabellum with 33-36 ± 1 bristles ...la. P. alpestre alpestre Dor. and Rubz. — alpine blackfly. 5 ( 4). Large flabellum with 40 to 42 bristles Ic. P. alpestre relense Rubzov, var. n. 6 ( 3). Apical segments of antennae (3rd and 4th) together ...
Ivan Antonovich Rubt͡sov, 1989
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Metalwork, Ceramics, Glass, Glyptics, Painting
Silver Flabellum from Riha Constantinople, a.d. 565-578. Height 3o.9 cm. Width 25.5 cm. Weight 485 grams. Acc. no. 36.23 PLATKS xiv, xv The flabellum, or liturgical fan, is decorated with the figure of a tetramorph engraved on an otherwise ...
Marvin C. Ross, 1962
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Antarctic and Subantarctic Scleractinia
Flabellum gardineri n. sp. Plate 13, figs. 1-3 Gardineria lilliei; Gardiner, 1939, pp. 328, 329 (part: 40 specimens from Discovery sta. 160). Description. Corallum ceratoid, straight, elongate. Pedicel diameter about 2.5 mm, expanding slightly at  ...
Stephen Cairns, 1982
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Church Vestments: Their Origin and Development
XIII CENTURY In an inventory at Salisbury dated 12 14 occurs the entry ' Ornaments of the Church of Sarum: two flabella of subserica for purification.' See also Fig. 64. An inventory relating to the Church of Amiens mentions ' a flabellum made ...
Herbert Norris, 2002
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Cold-Water Corals and Ecosystems
The study confirms the presence of eight species including: Acanella arbuscula, Acanthogorgia armata, Flabellum spp., Keratoisis ornata, Lophelia pertusa, Paragorgia arborea, Paramuricea spp. and Primnoa resedaeformis. Significant ...
André Freiwald, J. Murray Roberts, 2006
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A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic ...
However, the figure in the Naʿt is not holding a staff, but, quite extraordinarily, a flabellum used in the liturgy of the Coptic and Syriac church. Such a representation of this distinctively ecclesiastical object is the only one I am aware of in Arabic ...
Anna Contadini, 2011
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The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years
What has survived, the so-called Flabellum of Tournus, more than compensates for an otherwise disappointing dearth of quantity. A flabellum is a fan used to keep flies away from the altar and Eucharist during Mass. Christian liturgical ...
Jan M. Ziolkowski, Michael C. J. Putnam, 2008
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The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
The tetramorph crosses his arms, and he holds a sword or dagger in one hand and a flowering staff or a liturgical fan (flabellum) in the other, which are also crossed.There are other fig- ures in early medieval illuminations and sculptures from ...
Jamie Kreiner, 2014
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Laboratory Manual for Classification and Morphology of Rumen ...
D. flabellum flabellum FIGURE 33. Diplodinium flabellum flabellum Kofoid and MacLennan, 1932 LENGTH(L) WIDTH(W) L/W MEAN 99/лп 66/лп 1.50 RANGE 90- 1 08/i m 58-72/im 1.43-1.57 D. flabellum monosp1natum FIGURE 32.
Burk A. Dehority, 1993
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American Old and Middle Tertiary Larger Foraminifera and Corals
Family FLABELLIDAE Genus Flabellum Lesson 1831 21. Flabellum sp. (F. rubrum species group) (Plate 3, figures 14, 15) LOCALITY AND MATERIAL: Upper Scotland formation, Chalky Mount member, Barbados; S. 58 (middle Chalky Mt.), ...
John West Wells, 1945

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLABELLUM»

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British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor's underwater creations off …
The work uses live purple Gorgonian fan coral (Gorgonia flabellum), which had been displaced from the reef system in a storm. Man on fire: ... «Daily Mail, Nov 13»
2
Potomac teen out of spelling bee competition in seventh round
Lanson correctly spelled "obelisk", "prabhu" and "flabellum", and "gaminerie" in previous rounds. "I sound [the words] out in my mind, and I see ... «Business Gazette, Jun 10»
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