loculus
Americannoun
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loculi
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Biology. locule.
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Ecclesiastical. a compartment in an altar, in which relics are kept.
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a recess in an ancient catacomb or tomb, where a body or cinerary urn was placed.
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Origin of loculus
1855–60; < New Latin, special use of Latin loculus, diminutive of locus place; see locus, -ule
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Unilocular, ū-ni-lok′ū-lar, adj. having but one loculus or cavity, as the heart of an amphioxus.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
An ordinary grave was called locus or loculus, if it contained a single body; or bisomum, trisomum, or quadrisomum, if it contained two, three, or four.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
The picture we are about to examine is found over a loculus or grave in this cemetery of Priscilla.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, February, 1865 by Various
The pentalocular ovary has numerous ovules in each loculus.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
These inferiæ, or rites, could be celebrated easily if the loculus and the cinerary urn were near the ground, while ladders were required to reach the upper tiers.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Two loculi, excavated near the286 entrance outside the corridor, contained bodies of infants with magic circlets around their necks.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
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 loculi here also are set endways to the passage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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.
A short distance from the entrance, I came to a vestibule surrounded with loculi or rock-hewn graves.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh
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