Definition of "virgula" []

• A solid strengthening rod in the graptolites which originates in the wall of the sicula and extends through the nema into the rhabdosomes. It is characteristic of the Axonolipa, an order of the Graptoloidea. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "E em noventa e nove virgula noventa e nove por centos das vezes com razão."
• "When used singly, the acutus, too, retained its shape fairly accurately and from its shape received the name virga (virgula)."
• "Nam primum 1 apex fuit, seu virgula, nota [Greek: monados]. 2, est ipsum [beta] extremis suis truncatum. [gamma], si in sinistram partem inclinaveris & cauda mutilaveris & sinistrum cornu sinistrorsum flexeris, fiet 3."