gladius

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A Roman sword roughly two feet long.

   “Finally, the Romans made the gladius—sharp, of highly-tempered steel, and strongly piercing—the first real sword (Figs. 17, 18, 19), of which only five specimens are now known to exist.”

2. isim A pen, a hard internal bodypart of certain cephalopods, made of chitin-like material.

   “From the Cretaceous of North America fossilised gladii in the enigmatic genus Tusoteuthis have been estimated to give a mantle length (body size) of 1.8m, just less than that of the giant squid’s.”