Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having four cells or compartments; four-celled: as, a quadrilocular pericarp.
- In anatomy and zoology, having four cavities or compartments: chiefly an epithet of the heart of mammale and birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having four cells, or cavities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having four cells or compartments.
Etymologies
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quadri- + locular
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Examples
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The heart is not quadrilocular (i.e., of four chambers), but trilocular (of three), and two structures, not seen in Lepus, the truncus arteriosus and the sinus venosus, into the latter of which the venous blood runs before entering the right auricle, are to be noted.
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