Flabella [noun]

The large organ of the flabellum and the branchial organs he has not taken into consideration.

A special sense-organ, such as the flabellum of Limulus or the pecten of scorpion, remains and gives rise to the auditory organ.

Upon the completion of the victory, four fan-bearers, each with crook and flabellum, offer the spoils of conquest to the king.

There is also in the same collection a capital of morse ivory for the handle of a flabellum, North German, twelfth century.

A portion of the cylindrical stem of a flabellum or aspergillum, probably French of the twelfth century, is in the British Museum.

During the fourteenth century, the long-handled flabellum was also in use, waved by attendants as at Thebes and Rome.

Each coronet is a flat flabellum, placed in a meridian plane, and composed of eight pairs of spinulate branches as figured, loc.

In England the flabellum was in use even in remote parishes.

Fl, The flabellum which becomes the epipodite of higher forms.

The sixth pair have no chel, but at the base have a peculiar process termed the flabellum.