Sigillaria

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation;

— so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the surface.

II. Sigillaria ·noun ·pl 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.

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