glabella

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ɡləˈbɛlə/(US)

Definition of glabella

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
    “The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it.”
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noun

  1. The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
    “The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it.”
  2. The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

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Etymology

From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).

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