utricle
a small sac or baglike body, as an air-filled cavity in a seaweed.
Botany. a thin bladderlike pericarp or seed vessel.
Anatomy. the larger of two sacs in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.: Compare saccule (def. 1).
Origin of utricle
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How to use utricle in a sentence
In the latter case, it forms an inner cell to the cell-wall, and is called the primordial utricle.
An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William GriffithThe terms protoplasm and primordial utricle are, however, used by some authors synonymously.
An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William GriffithThe fruit is a membranous one-seeded utricle often enclosed by the persistent calyx.
Fruit a perfectly or incompletely 3-celled many-seeded capsule, or a 1-celled 1-seeded utricle.
utricle bursting irregularly, enclosing an oblong longitudinally ribbed seed (or nutlet).
British Dictionary definitions for utricle
utriculus (juːˈtrɪkjʊləs)
/ (ˈjuːtrɪkəl) /
anatomy the larger of the two parts of the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear: Compare saccule
botany the bladder-like one-seeded indehiscent fruit of certain plants, esp sedges
Origin of utricle
1Derived forms of utricle
- utricular or utriculate, adjective
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