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guttae (gtt, gtts, GTTS)
Etymology: L, drops
the plural of gutta, more than one drop, as in guttae pro auribus, or ear drops, or guttae ophthalmicae, or eyedrops.


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Another, Thysania agrippina, or white witch moth, fed on a gum tree Merian called "Gummi Guttae.
He states that it seems plausible to assume "at one time the triglyphs did mask the ends of wooden beams," and that "the droplike shapes below, called guttae," seen also in many twentieth-century architecture "are the descendants of wooden pegs (26)" However, form as the primogenitor of function transcended architecture to transportation.
For example, the various parts of a classical cornice, all the clutter of dentils, triglyphs, metopes, guttae, architraves and other obscure objects, are merely the vestiges of the ends of roof rafters, the beams on which they rested, pegs to hold them in place, and so on.
 
 
 
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