Definition of Tessella

1. Noun. A small tessera.

Generic synonyms: Tessera
Derivative terms: Tessellate

Definition of Tessella

1. Noun. A small tessera. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tessella

1. a little tessera [n TESSELLAE]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tessella

tes
teschemacherite
tesetaxel
tesh
teshuva
tesla
teslas
tesofensine
tessara-
tesselar
tesselate
tesselated
tesselates
tesselating
tesselation
tessella (current term)
tessellae
tessellata
tessellate
tessellated
tessellated fundus
tessellates
tessellating
tessellation
tessellations
tessera
tesseract
tesseracts
tesseradecade
tesseradecades

Literary usage of Tessella

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Antiquary (1871)
"The tessella: composing the breast and neck of the bird are of a bright azure glass, v¡ith a slight admixture of green of the same material ; the wing is of ..."

2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1868)
"Beneath, the legs and body parts are pale dull cinereous; tarsi and tibiae, annulated and barred with black outwardly, as in H. tessella. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1874)
"tessella'TUS. tessellated; applied to pavements (Suet. CCBS. 46.); see PAVIMENTUM, 3. 2. Applied to whips (Apul. Met. viii. p. 173. ..."

4. Roman Pavements by Henry Colley March (1906)
"We incidentally get some idea of the size connoted by this diminutive, the tessella, since Pliny in his Book on Cultivated trees speaks of grafting and says ..."

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