tabula

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: L.

1. A table; a tablet.

2. Zoology One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.

Tabula rasa (…) , a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; — a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54