Bulla Definition

bo͝olə
bullae
noun
bullae
A round lead seal attached to an official document from the pope.
Webster's New World
A large blister or vesicle.
Webster's New World
(archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
Wiktionary

(historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.

Wiktionary
Later, handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
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Other Word Forms of Bulla

Noun

Singular:
bulla
Plural:
bullae

Origin of Bulla

  • Borrowing from Latin bulla ("bubble").

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin from Latin bubble, seal

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bulla Sentence Examples

  • The bulla was a circular gold locket containing a charm of some kind against evil.'

  • Actaeon is prosobranchiate, the visceral commissure is twisted in Actaeon and Chilina, and even slightly still in Bulla and Scaphander; in Actaeon and Limacina the osphradium is to the left, innervated by the supra-intestinal ganglion.

  • The Thecosomatous Pteropoda are allied to Bulla, the Gymnosomatous forms to Aplysia.

  • Tympanics small, not forming a bulla.

  • Cirta (Constantine) and Bulla Regia (Hammam Darraj), its chief towns, received coloniae of soldiers and veterans, as well as Theveste (Tebessa) and Thamugas (Timgad).

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Words Starting With

BBUBUL

Words Ending With

ALALLA

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Words Starting With B and Ending With A

Starts With B & Ends With AStarts With BU & Ends With AStarts With B & Ends With LA

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