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 trilocular.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a loculus or compartment.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin loculus, diminutive of locus, place + –ar.]

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Examples

  • 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.

    Q&A: 'Ripe' author Arthur Allen 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • 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.

    Columnist: Keith Groller 2010

  • 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.

    Columnist: Keith Groller 2010

  • 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.

    Columnist: Keith Groller 2010

  • 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.

    Columnist: Keith Groller 2010

  • 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.

    Columnist: Keith Groller 2010

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