| n. pl. | 1. | (Rom. Antic.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia. |
| n. | 1. | (Paleon.) A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; - so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface. |
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