Tela

American

[te-lah] / ˈtɛ lɑ /

noun

a seaport in N Honduras.

tela British

/ ˈtiːlə /

noun

anatomy any delicate tissue or weblike structure

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Etymology

Origin of tela

from New Latin, from Latin: a web

Example Sentences

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That has not changed since the events over the weekend, the department’s communications manager Tela Goodwin Mange told The Times in an email Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2024

And throughout, he navigates his complicated relationship with Tela.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

“We defend total transparency in this electoral act,” Vila Nova said at a voting station in a school in Sao Tome, according to Tela Non.

From Reuters • Sep. 5, 2021

After arriving in Tapanatepec's main plaza, Evelin Flores, a spunky 7-year-old from Tela, Honduras, set to playing her favorite game of "stylist," combing everyone's hair as she loves to do back home.

From Fox News • Nov. 1, 2018

Tela tamen sola, cum crebris comminacionibus et conuiciis, transuolarunt.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.

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