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Ootheca
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Oˊo-the′ca
,Noun.
pl.
Oothecae
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. [NL., fr. Gr.
ω,ὄν
an egg + [GREEK] a case.] (Zool.)
An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf.
Ooecium
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ootheca
ootheca
See also: oötheca
English
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Noun
A cockroach (Periplaneta fuliginosa) in Sydney laying an ootheca.
ootheca (plural oothecae)
- An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids).
- 1994, Daniel Evan Weiss, The Roaches Have No King, ISBN 9781852423261, page 4:
- Since the founding of the colony it had been a tradition to unload oothecae – egg sacs – in the cabinets so the younglings would be near the principal food stocks.
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