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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

एककोष्ठकी

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ek-koshthaki

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Unilocular/ˌjuː.nɪˈlɒk.jʊ.lər/
adjectiveCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #85000 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"इस पौधे का अंडाशय एककोष्ठकी होता है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having only one compartment, cavity, or locule, as certain seed pods, shells, or cells.

    "The botanical analysis revealed that the ovary of the flower was unilocular, containing a single cavity."
  2. 2

    In medicine and histology, describing a cyst, tumor, or adipocyte containing a single large fluid or lipid droplet.

    "Biopsy of the adipose tissue identified unilocular fat cells characteristic of white adipose tissue."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin prefix 'uni-' (meaning 'one') combined with 'loculus' (a diminutive of 'locus', meaning 'place' or 'cell'), coined in 19th-century scientific and botanical nomenclature. It emerged through neoclassical compounding to describe biological structures possessing a single chamber or compartment.

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