A small or simple fan-shaped object or structure.
From Latin flabellum (fan), a diminutive form related to flabrum (lip or edge). This is a rare botanical or anatomical term.
Flabel is so specialized that it's almost entirely confined to botany and anatomy textbooks, yet it shows how English borrowed entire families of Latin words about fans and fan-shaped things for scientific precision.
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