PATELLA

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A small dish, pan, or vase.

2.
n.

The kneepan; the cap of the knee.

3.
n.

A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

4.
n.

A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.


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