ootype
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek; corresponding to oo- + -type.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ootype (plural ootypes)
- (zoology) The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ootype”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)