Mola meaning

mōlə, -lä
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A colorful fabric panel of Central American origin that is sewn with a reverse-appliqué technique and is used for decorative purposes, as on clothing or furniture or as a wall hanging.
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A fabric made by Panamanian Indians with designs cut through several layers, used for clothing, wall hangings, etc.
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A genus of fishes of the family Molidae, comprising two species: the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and the southern sunfish (Mola ramsayi).
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Origin of mola

  • Latin millstone (from its shape and rough skin) melə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Kuna clothing, blouse, mola

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin for millstone, probably from the fish's shape and rough skin.

    From Wiktionary

Mola Sentence Examples

  • Owing to the discovery of inscriptions relating to the Gens Vitruvia at Formiae in Campania (Mola di Gaeta), it has been suggested that he was a native of that city, and he has been less reasonably connected with Verona on the strength of an existing arch of the 3rd century, which is inscribed with the name of a later architect of the same family name -- "Lucius Vitruvius Cerdo, a freedman of Lucius."

  • Mahon is one of the principal quarantine stations of Spain; the lazaretto, erected between 1798 and 1803, stands on a long tongue of land, separated from La Mola by the inlet of Cala Taulera.

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