Loculus meaning

läkyuləs, läkyələs
Any small cavity or chamber in plant or animal tissue.
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A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.
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In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn.
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(zoology) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
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(botany) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
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Loculus Sentence Examples

  • Seeds of each loculus united.

  • Interment in the wall-recess or loculus, though infinitely the most common, was not the only mode employed in the catacombs.

  • Another frequent concomitant of these catacomb interments, a small glass vessel containing traces of the sediment of a red fluid, embedded in the cement of the loculus (fig.

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