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Meaning of SIGILLARIA

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
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  1. \Sig`il*la"ri*a\, n. pl. [L., from sigillum a seal.
    See {Sigil}.] (Rom. Antic.)
    Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or
    given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia;
    hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the
    Saturnalia.
    
  2. \Sig`il*la"ri*a\, n. [NL., fem sing. fr. L. sigillum
    a seal.] (Paleon.)
    A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal
    formation; -- so named from the seallike leaf scars in
    vertical rows on the surface.
    
 
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