bulla

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The store sold everyday goods and featured a large brick oven that was used to make its famous bulla cakes, flavorful flat pastries made with flour, ginger and molasses.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2021

In ancient times, a seal stamp, or bulla, was used to authenticate documents or items.

From Fox News • Apr. 1, 2019

Ursidae are characterized by the very small tympanic bulla, and the broad paroccipital process, which is, however, independent of the bulla.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

The word is derived from the Early English bille, Anglo-Latin billa, from Latin bulla, in the medieval sense of “seal.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Auditory bulla completely ossified, perforated on the inner side by the carotid canal, and continued externally into an elongated bony meatus auditorius, with its aperture directed upwards and backwards.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various