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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In human anatomy, a small space on the forehead immediately above and between the eyebrows.—
  • noun In trilobites, the median convex portion of the cephalic shield, being the cephalic continuation of the thoracic axis or tergum. See cut under Trilobita.
  • noun Also glabella.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite. See trilobite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology The median, convex lobe of the head of a trilobite.

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