Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, having several or many chambers: applied to the nests of insects, and to galls, when they contain many cells or compartments, each destined for or inhabited by a single larva.
- In conchology, having many compartments; multilocular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera and cephalopods. See
Illust. ofnautilus .
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- adjective zoology Having many
chambers .
Etymologies
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poly- + Ancient Greek a chamber.
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