Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The egg case of certain insects and mollusks.
Wiktionary
- n. An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids).
Etymologies
- oo- + theca (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Other species, however, simply drop the ootheca off in some hidden corner, where the babies can incubate safely while you beat their mothers to death with a shoe.”
“Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca.”
“Some cockroaches will tote the ootheca around attached to their bodies until the babies hatch.”
“Stumble upon enough ootheca in the basement, and its liable to be the first thing you take to the lab.”
“[12] The production of ootheca is only found in cockroaches and the praying”
“In the species, Periplaneta Americana, the ootheca can have up to”
“I took some really nice images today of praying mantis nymphs emerging from their papery ootheca, an amazing sight.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ootheca’.
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reproduction
gravid, hysterectomy, vanishing twin, fetal resorption, fetus papyraceus, craniopagus paras..., vestigial twin, fetus in fetu, pump twin, blighted ovum, fetal pole, crown-rump length and 110 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 339 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (O)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
oak, oblivion, octagon, october, ode, ogre, omen, op art, opaline, open sesame, ophiomancy, opium and 29 more...
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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June 2011
revivify, assimilability, trichotillomania, thalassocracy, prodrome, watteau, keelhaul, maelstrom, glossolalia, ethereal, turophile, piccalilli and 44 more...
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herrherr's list
vicenarian, kretek, portmanteau, neologism, medomalacuphobia, outre, ootheca, cantankerous, cockamamie, poppycock, pshaw, uroboros and 40 more...
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oo ee oo aa aa
Words that start with a double letter. Suggestions welcome!
eerie, eel, oolite, oozy, aardvark, oops, oology, oolong, ooh, oomiak, oomph, oospore and 15 more...
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OoOoOo
Words starting with oo. Because I like the way it looks and sounds.
oobleck, oologist, oosphere, oogonium, ooer, oolite, ookinete, oocyst, ootheca, oospore, oology, oo and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ootheca.
missanthropist Captcha~tankerous.
Will call the new tree fungus I discovered this until something better pops up. Feb 4, 2009
trivet I think it would make a great dropped-a-brick-on-your-toe word: oo-theca! Feb 3, 2009
rolig The sound of the word is rather lovely, I think: o-ah-THEE-kah, like the name of some Achaean princess. Feb 3, 2009
sionnach Nothing about this word is appealing. Feb 3, 2009
treeseed egg mass of a mantis Feb 3, 2009