noun
pl. -·li· any small cavity or chamber in plant or animal tissue
also loc′ule·
Origin of loculus
Modern Latin from L, diminutive of locus, place: see localloculus
locu·lusWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural loculi)
- A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.
- 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.
- (zoology) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
- (botany) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
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