Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an animal or plant, as any of the cavities within a plant ovary.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A loculus or cell.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A little hollow; a loculus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology A little hollow; a loculus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin loculus, little place, diminutive of locus, place.]

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Compare French locule. See loculus.

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