PHYLACTERY as NOUN

  1. Meaning
    • (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin)
    • traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer
    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) phylactery is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower