lappet

A decorative flap or loose fold on a garment or headdress.

A flaplike structure, such as the wattle of a bird or the lobe of the ear.

An obsolete form of lap.

To cover with or as with a lappet.

A little lap, flap, or pendant, especially on a coat or a head-dress.

In ornithology, a wattle or other fleshy process hanging from a bird’s head.

One of certain bombycid moths, as Lasiocampa quercifolia: an English book-name. The small lappet is

In biology, a small lobe-shaped organ, such as the lappets of certain nemertean larvæ, etc.

Same as tegula.

In paleontology, an ear-like crest formed in some nautiloid cephalopods, as Lituites and Ophidioceras, by an extension of the lateral margins of the aperture of the shell.