Usually means: Sails of a ship; constellation.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word Vela:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vela, Vela, vela: Merriam-Webster
  2. Vela, vela: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Vela, vela: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Vela: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Vela, vela: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vela, vela: Wordnik
  7. Vela, vela: Wiktionary
  8. vela: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vela: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. vela: Dictionary.com
  11. Vela (constellation), Vela (satellite), Vela: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Vela: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Vela: Rhymezone
  14. Vela, vela, vela: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. vela: FreeDictionary.org
  16. vela: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Vela: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vela-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vela (constellation), Vela: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vela: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. vela: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. VELA: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vela: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See velum as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Vela)

noun:  (astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the sails of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.

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