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Loculus vs Oculus - What's the difference?

loculus | oculus |

As nouns the difference between loculus and oculus

is that loculus is a little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet while oculus is a window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).

loculus

English

Noun

(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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    oculus

    English

    Noun

    (oculi)
  • (architecture) A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
    • One can glimpse the sky through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome.