![]() noun planetology complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Tritonįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.noun A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.noun In zoology, a small, squarish plate of bone such as those forming the carapace of armadillos and glyptodons.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun Same as tessera hospitalis (which see, below).noun A small square of bone, wood, or the like used in ancient Rome as a ticket of admission to the theater, etc.noun A die for playing fames of chance.Tesseræ are small in surface, and are thick in proportion, and therein differ from tiles, which are large and flat. noun A small piece of hard material, generally square in plan, used in combination with others of similar character for making mosaics.noun One of the small squares of stone or glass used in making mosaic patterns.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. ![]()
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