loculi
- plural of loculus.
Example Sentences
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Next to it is a square with six open loculi ranged from north to south.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The ovary is partially adherent, is surmounted by a style, and has two or three loculi with an axile placenta, to which several small curved ovules are attached.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Frequently the walls are pitted with the loculi of a columbarium, which, however, appear to be too small to receive cinerary urns and must be intended for some other purpose.
From How to Observe in Archaeology by Various
The arcosolia were dismantled, and the loculi violated one by one.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Some of the loculi were closed with tiles, others with pagan inscriptions which the fossores had found by chance in tunnelling their way into the crypt.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
