Definitions For Cancellus

Noun

{{en-noun, cancelli}} (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel. (anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremity, extremities.

Etymology

From Latin cancellus ("little crab"). {{doublet, en, chancel}}.

Is Cancellus a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) NO
Scrabble Global NO
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
13
Words with Friends
19

The word Cancellus is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends

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