glabella

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glabella

  • /ɡləˈbɛlə/ US

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From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).

noun glabellas · glabellae

  1. The space between the eyebrows and above the nose. The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it.

    Similar: mesophryon

  2. The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

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noun anatomy: space

Españolentrecejo, glabela
한국어미간 migan
日本語眉間 miken
中文闕中 /阙中 quēzhōng
हिन्दीभ्रूमध्य bhrūmadhya
Portuguêsglabela, intercílio, mesófrio
Françaisglabelle
DeutschGlabella
Ελληνικάμεσόφρυος mesófryos, σταυρός stavrós
Русскийнадперено́сье nadperenósʹje, глабе́лла glabélla
Tiếng Việtấn đường
العربيةمَقْطَب maqṭab, بُلْجَة bulja

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@misc{glabella_2026,
  title = {glabella},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glabella},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}