Definitions

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

  • adjective Divided into or containing three cavities or compartments.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having three cells or compartments.

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

  • adjective Having three cells or cavities.

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  • adjective Having three cells or cavities.

Etymologies

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tri- +‎ locular

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Examples

  • Winged seeds are produced freely from the trilocular capsules which are 2-5 cm long: the seeds germinate readily.

    Chapter 37 1987

  • The female flowers are followed by dehiscent capsules, usually trilocular, with 6 seeds, usually winged for wind dispersal, though many of the cultivated forms have become partially or highly sterile.

    Chapter 37 1987

  • In Helianthemum the capsule has been described as unilocular or trilocular; and in H. mutabile, “Une lame, plus ou moins large, s’etend entre le pericarpe et le placenta.

    VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

  • The heart is not quadrilocular (i.e., of four chambers), but trilocular (of three), and two structures, not seen in Lepus, the truncus arteriosus and the sinus venosus, into the latter of which the venous blood runs before entering the right auricle, are to be noted.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Short in proportion to the Corolla tho wide or bulky; the Style is very long or longer than the stamens, simple, cilindrical, bowed or bent upwards, placed on the top of the germ, membranous shrivels and falls off when the pericarp has obtained it's full Size. the Stigma is three clefts very manute and pubescent. the pericarp is a capsule, triangular, oblong, obtuse, and trilocular with three longitudinal valves. the Seed So far as I could judge are noumerous not very manute and globilar.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

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