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Tela

American  
[te-lah] / ˈtɛ lɑ /

noun

  1. a seaport in N Honduras.


tela British  
/ ˈtiːlə /

noun

  1. anatomy any delicate tissue or weblike structure

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

His struggling mother, Tela, had him at 15.

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

My sheet anchors, then, in the inflammation of the lungs of children are, Ipecacuanha Wine and Smith's Tela Vesicatoria.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Chavasse, Pye Henry