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elating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

Having ten cells for seeds.

Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.

Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.

Having eight cells for seeds.

having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.

Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular heart.

Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.

Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp.

Having three cells or cavities; as, a trilocular capsule; a trilocular heart.

Having one cell or cavity only; as, a unilocular capsule or shell.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

A chamber of a multilocular shell. Glanvill.

A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

A combining form meaning eight; as in octodecimal, octodecimal, octolocular.

A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact.