lenticula

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See also: lentícula

English

Etymology

From Latin lenticula. See lenticel. Doublet of lentil.

Noun

lenticula (plural lenticulas or lenticulae)

  1. (medicine) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
  2. A small lens.
  3. (botany) A lenticel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lenticula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of lēns.

Noun

lenticula f (genitive lenticulae); first declension

  1. lentil
  2. freckle

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lenticula lenticulae
genitive lenticulae lenticulārum
dative lenticulae lenticulīs
accusative lenticulam lenticulās
ablative lenticulā lenticulīs
vocative lenticula lenticulae

Descendants

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