Usually means: Shield shaped like crescent moon.
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  1. pelta: Merriam-Webster
  2. pelta: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pelta: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pelta: Wordnik
  5. pelta: Wiktionary
  6. Pelta, pelta: Dictionary.com
  7. Pelta: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Pelta: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. pelta: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Pelta: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. pelta: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Pelta: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pelta: mosaic glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pelta)

noun:  (historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
noun:  (art, historical) A crescent-shaped design used in mosaics.
noun:  (botany) A flat apothecium with no rim.
noun:  (microbiology) A crescent-shaped sheet of microtubules that encircles the base of the flagella of a protozoan.

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