virgula.
A small, thin, straight growth
Meaning & usage
A small, thin, straight growth The spines of a ray.
A small, thin, straight growth The sicula of a graptolite.
A divining or dowsing rod.
Any small rod.
Synonym of virgule: a punctuation mark.
Synonym of stem: the tail of a note.
Synonym of virga: one of the neumes of medieval musical notation.
Where this word comes from
From Latin virgula (“twig; wand; scratch comma”), from virga (“branch; rod”) + -ulus (“-ule: forming diminutives”). As a dowsing rod, via virgula divina or divinatoria. Doublet of virgule.
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