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Any external case or sheath.

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The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther.

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The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle.

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The membrane complex enveloping the cells of certain plankton including diatoms and dinoflagellates.

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The calcareous wall of a corallite, the exoskeleton of a coral polyp.

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A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist.

Examples of thecae in a Sentence

The hypothecium is the basal part of the apothecium on which the hymenium is borne; the latter consists of asci (thecae) with ascospores, and paraphyses.

There is a tendency for the branches to become reduced in number, and for the serial thecae to become directed more and more upwards towards the line of the nema.

The thecae in the earliest family - Dichograptidae - are so similar in form to the sicula itself that the polypary has been compared to a colony of siculae; there is the greatest variation in shape in those of the latest family - Monograptidae--in some species of which the terminal portion of each theca becomes isolated (Rastrites) and in some coiled into a rounded lobe.

Internally, there existed a third set of thecae, held to have been inhabited by the budding individuals.

In the genus Dendrograptus the gonothecae open within the walls of the ordinary thecae, and the branches present an outward resemblance to those of the uniserial Graptoloidea.

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