Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An egg-case; an ovisac; a capsule of an individual ovum, answering to what is called a Graafian follicle in the human species, or a case of several ova. See cut under
mermaid's-purse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
Oötheca .
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- noun anatomy The
outer layer of aGraafian follicle . - noun zoology An
ootheca .
Etymologies
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From ovum and capsule.
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