pannicle

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French pannicle, and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle (plural pannicles)

1. (anatomy, zoology) A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
2. (obsolete, medicine) A pannus.
3. (obsolete, rare) The skull.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].

Anagrams

• pinnacle

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Middle French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle f (plural pannicles)

1. pannicle (membrane)

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Old French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin panniculus (“membrane”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin panniculus (“small rag”), from pannus (“cloth”).

Noun

pannicle oblique singular, f (oblique plural pannicles, nominative singular pannicle, nominative plural pannicles)

1. pannicle (membrane)