Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to or resembling a tile.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile; consisting of tiles.
  • In entomology, covering, as a sclerite, the base of an insect's wing; of or pertaining to a tegula.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling or relating to a tile; arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or resembling a series of tiles

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin tēgula, tile, from tegere, to cover; see (s)teg- in Indo-European roots.]

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Latin tegularis, from Latin tegula a tile. See tile.

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  • In Ada: ". . .the tegular pattern of her brilliant plumage which Tresham had rendered with ornithological skill."

    July 17, 2020