Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little pitcher or ewer.
- noun In botany, any pitcher- or urn-shaped body.
- noun In zoology, the external tubular casing or sheathing of a wheel-animalcule; the zoöthecium of a rotifer, corresponding to the lorica of an infusorian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any urn-shaped organ of a plant.
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- noun botany Any
urn -shapedorgan of aplant .
Etymologies
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Latin, a little pitcher.
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