ootype

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English

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek; corresponding to oo- +‎ -type.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ootype (plural ootypes)

  1. (zoology) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 ootype”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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