Tabula /(?)/

Tab·u·la

Tabula

n.

pl. Tabulae

  1. A table; a tablet.
  2. One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. (Zool.)

Phrases & Compounds
Tabula rasa
a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.