latebran.

1626 R. Salter Wonderfull Prophecies 3 And so these become (Latebræ) Hyding places (as the word is also found used) unto those others.

1652 J. Jones Lawyers Unmask'd 35 The second Statute..granted a Capias to ferret out such Latitants out of such Latebras.

1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. vii. 144 Why may not those Creatures be there generated, and after the fall of those Rains desert their Cells or Latebræ, to bask upon the surface of the Ground?

1793 G. White Jrnl. 9 Apr. (1970) xxvi. 428 They [sc. sand martins] may..have been awakened by the influence of the Sun, amidst their secret latebrae, where they have spent the uncomfortable foodless months in a torpid state.

1817 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 167 In such a case of concealment as the present, where the papers are extracted from the latebrae of the ship, there can be no certainty.

1855 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 11 Mar. in Writings (1906) VII. 243 I see pitch pine needles..thickly covered..with narrow white oyster-shell-like latebrae or chrysalids of an insect.

1999 F. Newton Scriptorium & Libr. at Monte Cassino, 1058–1105 viii. 314/2 The fact that the other manuscript..is also in Beneventan may suggest a South Italian location as their latebrae.

1854 A. Thomson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 69/1 This whiter internal substance constitutes what has been called the central cavity (or latebra) of the yolk.

1888 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Latebra, a small spherical mass of white yolk in the centre of the yellow yolk of a fowl's egg; the yolk cavity of Purkinje.

1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. iii. 40 In the ova of Birds the white yolk is disposed in the form of a central plug—the latebra—under the blastodisc.

1997 T. Okubo et al. in T. Yamamoto et al. Hen Eggs i. 6 Several structures are seen in egg yolk (latebra, neck of latebra, nucleus of pander, and embryonic disc), which originate from white yolk.