Word.ws English Dictionary

ampullas

ampullas is the plural of ampulla.

Meaning of ampulla

Noun

ampulla (plural ampullas or ampullae)

  1. (historical) An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
  2. A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
    • Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8
  3. The dilated end of a duct.
  4. The spongiole of a root.

Phrases with ampullas

Questions about ampullas

What is ampullas the plural of?
Ampullas is the plural of ampulla.

Words near ampullas in the dictionary

  1. ampullarid
  2. ampullarids
  3. ampullariid
  4. ampullariids
  5. ampullary
  6. ampullas
  7. ampullas of Vater
  8. ampullate
  9. ampullated
  10. ampullates
  11. ampullectomies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ampullas (page history and authors); ampulla (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ampullas.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ampullas. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.