ovicapsulen.
/ˈəʊvɪˌkapsjuːl/, /ˌəʊvɪˈkapsjuːl/, U.S. /ˈoʊvɪˌkæps(ə)l/; see also capsule n. Biology. Now rare.
A capsule or sac containing an ovum or a number of ova; (Zoology) an egg case, an ovisac; (formerly spec. in Anatomy) †a Graafian follicle (obsolete).
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ovisac1834
ovicapsule1853
1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) Folliculi Graafiani, small spherical vesicles in the Stroma of the ovary, which have two coats; the outer termed ovicapsule and tunic of the ovisac.
1860 R. Owen in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 502 But has the free-swimming medusa, which bursts its way out of the ovicapsule of a campanularia, been developed out of inorganic particles?
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 442 But in the larger ova which succeed these, the cells of the ovicapsule rapidly enlarge.
1911 Amer. Naturalist 45 180 On the alcoholic specimens, on the exterior of the shell, were many minute lenticular capsules which..were supposed to be the ovicapsules.
1948 Ecol. Monographs 18 395/1 In the region of New Haven on the Connecticut coast ovicapsules..have been found in March and April.
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ovicapsular1877
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 442 The indifferent tissue..gives rise not only to ova and ovicapsular epithelium, but to large vitelligenous cells.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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