Definition of Locule. Meaning of Locule. Synonyms of Locule

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Definition of Locule

Locule
Locule Loc"ule, n. [Cf. F. locule. See Loculus.] (Zo["o]l.) A little hollow; a loculus.

Meaning of Locule from wikipedia

- A locule (pl.: locules) or loculus (Latin for 'little place'; pl.: loculi) is a small cavity or compartment within an organ or part of an organism (animal...
- two locules, one locule of a stamen may fail to develop, or alternatively the two locules may merge late in development to give a single locule. Extreme...
- on the floral apex. The chamber in which the ovules develop is called a locule (or sometimes cell). The style (from Ancient Gr**** στῦλος, stylos, meaning...
- Lycium). The number of ovules per locule also varies from a few (two pairs in each locule in Grabowskia, one pair in each locule in Lycium) and very occasionally...
- (flowering plants), the term locule (or cell) is used to refer to a chamber within the fruit. Depending on the number of locules in the ovary, fruit can be...
- inflated. Fruits of sedges are sometimes considered achenes although their one-locule ovary is a compound ovary. The fruit of the family Asteraceae is also so...
- stamens that are free from each other. The fruit is a capsule with a single locule that opens to reveal angular seeds. Plants in the genus Pittosporum are...
- to twenty one "faces" (Sanskrit: मुख, romanized: mukha, lit. 'face') or loculesnaturally ingrained longitudinal lines which divide the stone into segments...
- sunt, ut etiam semina, ejus parietibus affigantur. (a fleshy berry, whose locules are remote from the axis, and are so positioned near the periphery of the...
- cases both the septa and the walls of the locules split. Septicidal dehiscence. The septa between the locules of Ledum palustre capsules split as the fruit...