ootype

From Ancient Greek; corresponding to oo- +‎ -type.

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊətaɪp/

ootype (plural ootypes)

1. (zoology) The part of the oviduct of certain trematodes in which the ova are completed by being furnished with yolk, and, by secretion from the Mehlis glands, with a shell.

• “oötype”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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