TESSERA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: tesserae

Meaning:

A small square tile of stone or glass used in making mosaics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tessera" is a kind of...):

tile (a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tessera"):

tessella (a small tessera)

Holonyms ("tessera" is a part of...):

mosaic (art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass)

Derivation:

tessellate (tile with tesserae)