Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The usually hardened egg case of certain invertebrates, such as a cockroach.
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- noun An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as
cockroaches andmantids ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stumble upon enough ootheca in the basement, and its liable to be the first thing you take to the lab.
Boing Boing 2009
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Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca.
Boing Boing 2009
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Some cockroaches will tote the ootheca around attached to their bodies until the babies hatch.
Boing Boing 2009
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Other species, however, simply drop the ootheca off in some hidden corner, where the babies can incubate safely while you beat their mothers to death with a shoe.
Boing Boing 2009
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[12] The production of ootheca is only found in cockroaches and the praying
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In the species, Periplaneta Americana, the ootheca can have up to
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Stumble upon enough ootheca in the basement, and its liable to be the first thing you take to the lab.
Boing Boing 2009
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[12] The production of ootheca is only found in cockroaches and the praying
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In the species, Periplaneta Americana, the ootheca can have up to
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Some cockroaches will tote the ootheca around attached to their bodies until the babies hatch.
Boing Boing 2009
treeseed commented on the word ootheca
egg mass of a mantis
February 3, 2009
sionnach commented on the word ootheca
Nothing about this word is appealing.
February 4, 2009
rolig commented on the word ootheca
The sound of the word is rather lovely, I think: o-ah-THEE-kah, like the name of some Achaean princess.
February 4, 2009
trivet commented on the word ootheca
I think it would make a great dropped-a-brick-on-your-toe word: oo-theca!
February 4, 2009
missanthropist commented on the word ootheca
Captcha~tankerous.
Will call the new tree fungus I discovered this until something better pops up.
February 4, 2009