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conceptacle|kənˈsɛptək(ə)l|
[a. F. conceptacle or (its source) L. conceptācul-um receptacle, f. concept- ppl. stem of concipĕre. In scientific use (sense 2) the L. form is sometimes retained.]
†1. ‘That in which anything is contained; a vessel’ (J.); a receptacle. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Conceptacle, a conceptacle; any hollow thing, which is apt to receiue, hold, or containe. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth Pref., There is..in that huge conceptacle, water enough to effect such a deluge. 1855Bailey Mystic 35 The prime Conceptacle of motion.
2.
†a. Anat. The uterus; any vessel or cavity of the body.
1615Crooke Body of Man 827 The Veines which Aristotle cals the vesselles or conceptacles of bloud. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xviii. 49 The Conceptacle for the right Kidney was to be larger.
†b. Bot. = follicle. Obs.
Conceptaculum ‘was originally applied by Linnæus to what is now called follicle; and subsequently applied to the pair of follicles of Asclepiadaceæ and Apocynaceæ’.
1823Crabb Technol. Dict., Conceptacle or Follicle, a pericarp of one valve opening longitudinally on one side, and having the seeds loose in it.
c. Biol. A cavity-like organ containing the reproductive cells in some plants and animals of low organization.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 95 These granules, commonly called sporangia, thecæ, capsules, or conceptacles. 1859Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 216 The male conceptacles present..an arrangement of branched filaments. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 905 The same conceptacle of Fucus platycarpus produces both oogonia and antheridia. |