bulla
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The store sold everyday goods and featured a large brick oven that was used to make its famous bulla cakes, flavorful flat pastries made with flour, ginger and molasses.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2021
In ancient times, a seal stamp, or bulla, was used to authenticate documents or items.
From Fox News ● Apr. 1, 2019
Hind feet densely covered with long hair; ear short; tympanic bulla of moderate size.
From A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
From P. difficilis, P. ochraventer differs in having underparts distinctively brownish, rostrum expanded anteriorly with sides almost parallel, anteriormost loph of the first upper molar larger, and auditory bulla smaller.
From Mammals from Tamaulipas, Mexico by Rollin H. (Rollin Harold) Baker
Below the auditory canal is situated a round prominence, highly developed in carnivora; this is the tympanic bulla, also called the mastoid protuberance; it is an appendage of the tympanum.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
In 2017, Iraq received 450 cuneiform tablets and 3,000 ancient bullae, or seals, from the Museum and Green family firm Hobby Lobby paid a $3 million fine.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
They included cuneiform tablets, ancient cylinder seals and clay seal impressions known as bullae.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
They included 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets, slivers of papyrus, cylinder seals and clay bullae — all relics from ancient Mesopotamia that showcased some of the earliest forms of written communication.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2020
In 1986 archaeologists revealed that several lumps of figured clay called bullae, bought from Arab dealers in 1975, had once been used to mark documents.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition to the extensiveness of the white markings, the other two characters allegedly distinctive of S. leucoparia are broad and much flattened braincase and great degree of inflation of the mastoidal bullae.
From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
It is named from the Latin plural bullas, meaning the round bosses which the Romans put on their bridles.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
