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Definition of Spermathecae
1. spermatheca [n] - See also: spermatheca
Literary usage of Spermathecae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1899)
"spermathecae and prostates are very minute. guatemala EISEN. 18. ... Prostates
present. Two pairs of testes. spermathecae in VIII, without ..."
2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1899)
"Prostates present. Two pairs of testes. spermathecae in VIII, without ... 26.
Male pores not far from median line. One pair of spermathecae in IX, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"spermathecae r>0( egg sac; od, oviduct, are generally present in the ...
the spermathecae open at the distal extremity into the oesophagus, which is a fact ..."
4. Fauna Hawaiiensis: Being the Land-fauna of the Hawaiian Islands by David Sharp, Royal Society (Great Britain), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Royal Society (Great Britain (1900)
"The spermathecae appeared to be in 7, 8, instead of 6, 7. ... The larger worms
with the fewer papillae and three pairs of spermathecae I consider to be the ..."
5. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"EPIGYNUM OF THERIDION DIFFERENS i. surface view 2, view when made transparent x,
openings of the spermathecae s. spermathecae z, tube leading from the ..."
6. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"On each side of the spermathecal atrium are seen the true receptacula seminis or
spermathecae, slender, branched ducts (Fig. 7), opening interiorly close ..."
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