(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:35:24

O`o*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Oothecae (#). [NL., fr. Gr. an egg + a case.] Zool.

An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Oecium.

 

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