A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.

Large fan carried by the Pope's attendants on ceremonial occassions.

A flabellum (plural flabella), in liturgical use, is a fan made of leather, silk, parchment or feathers, intended to keep away insects from the Sacred Species and from the priest.

Recurved process often found on the first two thoracic exopods of branchiuran crustaceans.

In Apoidea (bees), a small thin plate at the apex of the glossa.