Usually means: Tools for plucking string instruments.
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  1. plectra: Merriam-Webster
  2. plectra: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plectra: Collins English Dictionary
  4. plectra: Vocabulary.com
  5. plectra: Wordnik
  6. plectra: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. plectra: Wiktionary
  8. Plectra, plectra: Dictionary.com
  9. Plectra: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Plectra: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. plectra: FreeDictionary.org
  12. plectra: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. plectra: Encyclopedia

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  1. plectra: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See plectrum as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (plectrum)

noun:  (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.
noun:  (anatomy, zoology) A projection of bone or other stiff tissue, such as the ridges in some insects' stridulatory organs.
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