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tessera

noun

Meaning

  1. A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
  2. Complex-ridged surface feature seen on plateau highlands of Venus and perhaps on Triton

Etymology / origin

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Related words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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