† conceptaculumn.
Obsolete.
= conceptacle n. (in various senses).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun]
receivera1398
resetc1400
receipta1425
receptaclec1425
repository1485
receptorya1500
pot1503
container?1504
hold1517
containing?1541
continent?1541
receptable1566
nest1589
conceptacle1611
keep1617
house1625
reception1646
inholder1660
conceptaculum1691
penholder1815
holder1833
carrier1855
compactum1907
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity
pita1275
holec1300
cella1398
den1398
follicle?a1425
purse?a1425
pocketa1450
fossac1475
cystis1543
trench1565
conceptory1576
vesike1577
vesicle1578
vault1594
socket1601
bladderet1615
cistern1615
cavern1626
ventricle1641
bladder1661
antrum1684
conceptaculum1691
capsule1693
cellule1694
loculus1694
sinus1704
vesicula1705
vesica1706
fosse1710
pouch1712
cyst1721
air chamber1725
fossula1733
alveole1739
sac1741
sacculus1749
locule1751
compartment1772
air cell1774
fossule1803
umbilicus1811
conceptacle1819
cœlia1820
utricle1822
air sac1835
saccule1836
ampulla1845
vacuole1853
scrobicule1880
faveolus1882
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > simple
follicle1687
conceptaculum1691
conceptacle1760
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 60 The great Conceptacula and Congregations of Water.
1724 J. Hutchinson Moses's Principia 38 The Seas, if they had been then in Being, or the Conceptacula had been form'd; the Waters to go had been in them.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Conceptaculum, among botanists, a kind of pericarpium, composed of soft and less rigid valves, and containing one cavity.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Conceptaculum,..a receptacle.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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