Word.ws English Dictionary

glabellum

/ɡləˈbɛləm/

glabellum is the alternative form of glabella.

Meaning of glabella

Noun

glabella (plural glabellas or 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.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 6.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 156
    Synonyms:
    mesophryon
  2. The axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).

Forms of glabellum

pluralglabella

Origin of glabellum

Borrowed from New Latin glabellum.

Words that rhyme with glabellum

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about glabellum

What is glabellum the alternative form of?
Glabellum is the alternative form of glabella.
How do you pronounce glabellum?
Glabellum is pronounced /ɡləˈbɛləm/.

Words near glabellum in the dictionary

  1. Glab
  2. glabella
  3. glabellae
  4. glabellar
  5. glabellas
  6. glabellum
  7. Glabicki
  8. glabranin
  9. glabrate
  10. glabratephrin
  11. glabrene

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: glabellum (page history and authors); glabella (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: “glabellum.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/glabellum. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.