Definition of "testa" [testa]

• The often thick or hard outer coat of a seed. (noun)

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• "For instance, the Latin word testa once meant a pot, and became slang for "head," something like the word "noggin" in English."
• "Her testa is very big and she has a horrible xipála … (ugly face in portuguese) chris brown its very ugly too …"
• "Early Latin had the word testa ` a jug 'which became a Roman slang word for ` the head' and eventually the standard word for the organ in several Romance tongues."