Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An egg-case containing eggs arranged in one of several different ways, as that of the cockroach or rearhorse.
- noun In botany, a sporangium of ferns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf.
oœcium .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
ootheca .
Etymologies
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oö- + theca
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