loculose

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English

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Etymology

From Latin loculosus. See loculament.

Adjective

loculose (comparative more loculose, superlative most loculose)

  1. (botany) Divided by internal partitions into cells.
    The pith of the pokeweed is loculose.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for loculose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)