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Utricle   Listen
noun
Utricle  n.  
1.
A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed.
2.
(Physiol.) A microscopic cell in the structure of an egg, animal, or plant.
3.
(Bot.) A small, thin-walled, one-seeded fruit, as of goosefoot.
4.
(Anat.) A utriculus.





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"Utricle" Quotes from Famous Books



... must be, if not identical, yet in a high degree analogous substances. Hence, from this point of view, the difference between animals and plants consists in this; that, in the latter, the contractile substance, as a primordial utricle, is enclosed within an inert cellulose membrane, which permits it only to exhibit an internal motion, expressed by the phenomena of rotation and circulation, while, in the former, it is not so enclosed. The protoplasm in the form of the primordial utricle is, as it were, the animal element ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


Words linked to "Utricle" :   pocket, membranous labyrinth, pouch


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