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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Tabula

· Tab·u·la · IPA
01 n. A table; a tablet.
pl. Tabulae ((#))
  1. 1.
    A table; a tablet.
  2. 2.
    One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Tabula rasa — a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.