Crossword-Solution: ROTULA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Rotula | n. | The patella, or kneepan. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| ROTULA | anagram | TORULA |
We have 5 clues for the answer “ROTULA”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Patella, or kneepan: Anat. | 1 answer |
| Kneecap | 3 answers |
| troche | 4 answers |
| KNEE bone | 5 answers |
| Patella | 6 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ROTULA (5)
But those pillars fold; and the rotula of the knee is a bone of a circular figure, which is placed on purpose on the joint, in order to fill it up, and preserve it, when the bones fold, for the bending of the knee.
Rotula: a small round segment sometimes present between the joints of antenna; and palpi: = torquillus.
Subsequently he settled at Inverness, where he drew up his _Astronomical Rotula_ for showing the motions of the planets, places of the sun and moon, &c., and in 1743 went to London, which was his home for the rest of his life.
All specimens from Calcutta.] I think it best to include in this genus, as the original diagnosis would suggest, all those species in which all the gemmule-spicules are definitely birotulate and have smooth edges to their disks, confining the name _Tubella_ to those in which the upper rotula is reduced to a mere knob.
Gemmule-spicules with the rotulæ circular, very wide as compared with the shaft, concave on the surface, with the shaft projecting as an umbo on the surface; the lower rotula often a little larger than the upper.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1947–1971).