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 Tab·u·la n.; pl. Tabulae
 1. A table; a tablet.
 2. Zool. One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
 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.
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