bulla

Meanings

1. A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as
2. A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
3. (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
4. A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
5. In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
6. A handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
7. Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.
8. The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).

1. A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.

1. A surname.
2. A locality in the Cobar council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
3. A town in the City of Hume, Victoria, Australia.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bill and bull (“papal bull; bubble”).

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