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Ootheca

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Oˊo-the′ca

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Noun.

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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.

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