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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
.