‖Tab″u‐la (?), n.; pl.Tabulæ (#). 1. A table; a tablet.
2. (Zoöl.) 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.