Definition of Sigillaria. Meaning of Sigillaria. Synonyms of Sigillaria

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Definition of Sigillaria

Sigillaria
Sigillaria 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.
Sigillaria
Sigillaria 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.

Meaning of Sigillaria from wikipedia

- Sigillaria is a genus of extinct, spore-bearing, arborescent lycophyte, known from the Carboniferous and Permian periods. It is related to the more famous...
- ancient Roman culture, sigillaria were pottery or wax figurines given as traditional gifts during the Saturnalia. Sigillaria as a proper noun was also...
- usually gag gifts or small figurines made of wax or pottery known as sigillaria. The poet Catullus called it "the best of days". Saturnalia was the Roman...
- may have favored drier areas of the swamp. One author[who?] thinks that Sigillaria favored the intermediate areas between levee habitat and swamp habitat...
- the leaves of Lepidodendron species are indistinguishable from those of Sigillaria species. The decurrent leaves formed a cylindrical s**** around branches...
- the underground rooting structures of arborescent lycophytes such as Sigillaria and Lepidodendron. These swamp forest trees grew to 50 meters and were...
- Ancient in situ lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, with attached stigmarian roots. Specimen is from the Joggins Formation (Pennsylvanian), ****berland Basin...
- Fossil lycopsid, probably Sigillaria, from Joggins, with attached stigmarian roots...
- (with its fruit cone called Lepidostrobus), Halonia, Lepidophloios and Sigillaria. The roots of several of these forms are known as Stigmaria. The fronds...
- Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous), particularly tree-like Lepidodendron and Sigillaria that dominated tropical wetlands. The complex ecology of these tropical...