glabella

English
Computer-generated human face illustrating the glabella
Diagram of a trilobite, showing the glabella in colour and numbered 4.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡləˈbɛlə/

Noun

glabella (plural glabellas or glabellae)

  1. (anatomy) The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
  2. (zoology) The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

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Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡlaˈbɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: gla‧bèl‧la

Noun

glabella f (plural glabelle)

  1. (anatomy) glabella
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