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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having but one chamber, as some Foraminifera of the family Lituolidæ.
  • In botany, single-chambered; having but one compartment; unilocular: applied to galls upon plants, and also rarely (as by Tuckerman) to the apothecia of certain lichens.
  • In entomology, having but one cavity: applied to the nests or galls of insects when they have only a single chamber.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) One-chambered.

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  • adjective zoology Having a single chamber.

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Ancient Greek

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