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Loculus vs Unilocular - What's the difference?

loculus | unilocular |

As a noun loculus

is a little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.

As an adjective unilocular is

having a single loculus or compartment.

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.

    • References

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    unilocular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a single loculus or compartment.

    • See also

    *plurilocular