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tapete

tapete is the obsolete form of tapetum.

Meaning of tapetum

Noun

tapetum (plural tapetums or tapeta)

  1. A membranous layer of tissue.
  2. The pigmentary layer of the retina.
  3. The cells on the outside of an archesporium.

Forms of tapete

pluraltapetes

Questions about tapete

What is tapete the obsolete form of?
Tapete is the obsolete form of tapetum.

Words near tapete in the dictionary

  1. tapeta
  2. tapeta lucida
  3. tapetail
  4. tapetails
  5. tapetal
  6. tapete
  7. tapetes
  8. tapeti
  9. tapetis
  10. tapetoretinal
  11. tapetosome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tapete (page history and authors); tapetum (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.

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