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- noun Plural form of
locule .
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Examples
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The drupe of the coffee usually has two locules, each containing a little "stone" (the seed and its parchment covering) from which the coffee bean (seed) is obtained.
All About Coffee 1909
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Seed vessel square, encircled by calyx, 2 locules each with 2 seeds.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Fruit fleshy, oval, smooth, yellow when ripe, with one or several locules according to the number of matured seeds.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Ovary inserted in the hollow of the receptacle, 2 many-ovuled locules.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Seed vessels very long, with faint longitudinal ridges, crowned by the remains of the calyx, 4 pluriovulate locules.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Ovary, 3 pseudo-locules formed by the central union of the placentas; pluriovulate.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Pistillate: Calyx and corolla as above; ovary of 2 or 3 uniovulate locules, encircled by a disk; style 2-or 3-branched.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Seed vessels globose with 3 locules each containing 2 seeds.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Pistillate solitary; ovary, 3 locules and numerous ovules; stigma, 3 bifid divisions; fruit globose, narrowing at the ends, covered with tubercles; seeds numerous, lacking albumen, having red aril.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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Ovary very long, inferior, with 4 many-ovuled locules.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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