01 n. An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.
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Oothecae ((#))
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An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.(Zool.) See: Ooecium