Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Divided into or containing a single cavity or compartment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, zoology, and pathology, having but one loculus, cavity, or compartment; single-chambered; monothalamous, as a foraminifer; uniloculate: as, a unilocular pericarp or anther; a unilocular heart or shell: correlated with bilocular, trilocular, quadrilocular, and multilocular or plurilocular. Also
monolocular .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Having one cell or cavity only.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a single
loculus orcompartment .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Helianthemum the capsule has been described as unilocular or trilocular; and in H. mutabile, Une lame, plus ou moins large, setend entre le pericarpe et le placenta.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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The sporangia, or more exactly the conidia, are composed of unilocular vesicles, perfectly colorless and transparent, which generally rise from one or both sides of the filaments of the mycelium, beginning as from little buds or eyes; very often several (two to three) sporangia occur placed one upon the other, at least on one side of the mycelium.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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The true place of Moringa seems to be near Xanthophyllum with which genus it has some remarkable points of resemblance, witness the papilionaceous corolla; unilocular stamina, their situation, ovary, placentation, and lastly glandulation.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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As the fruit develops, the soft tissue of the septa extends between the single seeds; the ripe fruit is thus unilocular and many-seeded.
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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Ranney 15.44 speaks of the successful removal of a unilocular tumor weighing 95 pounds; and Wall 15.45 tells of a death after removal of an ovarian tumor of the same weight.
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Ranney speaks of the successful removal of a unilocular tumor weighing 95 pounds; and Wall tells of a death after removal of an ovarian tumor of the same weight.
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The cysts thus formed may be unilocular or multilocular, and intra-cystic papillary vegetations frequently grow from their walls.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The gynoecium consists of 2 unilocular ovaries each containing an indefinite number of ovules.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Ovary rudimentary in the male flower; unilocular and uniovulate in the female.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Compound nectary of 5 unilocular, many-ovuled ovaries.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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