Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having, formed of, or divided into small cavities or compartments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In bot. zoöl., and anatomy, having one or more loculi or cells: used chiefly in compounds, as unilocular, bilocular, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as tri
locular .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
loculus orcompartment .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Allen, 51, offers a rounded account that engages and connects the dots in tomato development, much the same way that, say, a locular cavity holds the seeds and gel of the ripest, sweetest fruit.
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He spent his spare time working on three by three canvases scored off into locular sections containing dark circles in which he painted fantastic miniature landscapes.
The Secret Animal 2010
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Robson reports a multi-locular cyst of the ovary with extensive adhesions of the uterus, removed at the tenth week of pregnancy and ovariotomy performed without any interruption of the ordinary course of labor.
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Tomatoes with five distinctive seed cavities, filled with the jelly-like goo (locular jelly), and where the walls join together in the center for a dense core are the most vulnerable.
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Tomatoes with five distinctive seed cavities, filled with the jelly-like goo (locular jelly), and where the walls join together in the center for a dense core are the most vulnerable.
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Tomatoes with five distinctive seed cavities, filled with the jelly-like goo (locular jelly), and where the walls join together in the center for a dense core are the most vulnerable.
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Tomatoes with five distinctive seed cavities, filled with the jelly-like goo (locular jelly), and where the walls join together in the center for a dense core are the most vulnerable.
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Tomatoes with five distinctive seed cavities, filled with the jelly-like goo (locular jelly), and where the walls join together in the center for a dense core are the most vulnerable.
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