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 ; aloculus .
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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