Meanings
plural glabellas · plural glabellae
- anatomyThe space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
The good Doctor had perceptibly aged since last year but was as sturdy and square-shaped as ever with his well-padded shoulders, square chin, square nostrils, leonine glabella, and rectangular brush of grizzled hair that had something topiary about it.
1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 6.7, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 156Synonyms: mesophryon
- biologyThe axial protuberance on the cephalon of certain arthropods (especially trilobites).
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe space between the eyebrows and above the nose.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinglaber“smooth, hairless, bald”
- Englishglabella
From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَقْطَب, بُلْجَة
- مَقْطَب (maqṭab)anatomy: space
- بُلْجَة (bulja)anatomy: space
Bengali ভ্রূমধ্য
- ভ্রূমধ্য (bhrumoddho)anatomy: space
Catalan glabel·la, entrecella
- glabel·laanatomy: space
- entrecellaanatomy: space
Chinese Mandarin 闕中 /阙中
- 闕中 /阙中 (quēzhōng)anatomy: space
Czech mračivka, rozbrví
- mračivkaanatomy: space
- rozbrvíanatomy: space
- lysinaanatomy: space
Esperanto interbrovo, glabelo
- interbrovoanatomy: space
- glabeloanatomy: space
Finnish otsakolmio
- otsakolmioanatomy: space
French glabelle
- glabelleanatomy: space
German Glabella
- Glabellaanatomy: space
Greek μεσόφρυος, σταυρός
- μεσόφρυος (mesófryos)anatomy: space
- σταυρός (stavrós)anatomy: space
Hindi भ्रूमध्य
- भ्रूमध्य (bhrūmadhya)anatomy: space
Japanese 眉間
- 眉間 (miken)anatomy: space
Korean 미간
- 미간 (migan)anatomy: space
Persian ابرومیان
- ابرومیان (abrū-miyān)anatomy: space
Portuguese glabela, intercílio
- glabelaanatomy: space
- intercílioanatomy: space
- mesófrioanatomy: space
Russian надперено́сье, глабе́лла
- надперено́сье (nadperenósʹje)anatomy: space
- глабе́лла (glabélla)anatomy: space
Spanish entrecejo, glabela
- entrecejoanatomy: space
- glabelaanatomy: space
Urdu مابین الحواجب
- مابین الحواجب (mābaynu-l-hawājib)anatomy: space
Vietnamese ấn đường
- ấn đườnganatomy: space
Welsh talcen
- talcenanatomy: space
Cite this entry
glabella. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glabella
“glabella.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glabella. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glabella,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glabella.
Source: glabella on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.