mirabilia
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of mirabilia
First recorded in 1820–25; from Latin mīrābilia, a noun use of the neuter plural of the adjective mīrābilis “wonderful, marvelous, remarkable, singular”
Example Sentences
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Scientists have long known that many animals have retia mirabilia.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Dolphins and other cetaceans possess additional retia mirabilia snaking around their lungs, up their spine and into their brain.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
In most animals that have them, retia mirabilia serve as a mechanism for temperature regulation, and they have a unique structure.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
Indeed, retia mirabilia resemble complex stringy nets made up of thin veins and thick arteries.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2022
The size and height, the number of columns, altars, statues, and pictures,—in short, the mirabilia of S. Peter's,—have been greatly exaggerated.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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