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What is the noun for loculi?

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loculus
  1. A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.
  2. In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn.
  3. (zoology) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
  4. (botany) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
  5. Examples:
    1. “Lacking an extensive vacuolization phase, meiocytes of the same tetrads stay together until the anther opens and the loculus reduces and disappears.”
      “At the head and foot of the loculus were iron rings whereby it could be lifted.”
      “One sole loculus could contain several bodies and was used many times over.”
locule
  1. (zoology) A little hollow; a loculus.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Five of the 10 harvested fruits were cut transversely to calculate the average locule number per fruit and average fruit.”
      “In the hesperidium, the layer of endocarp lining the outside of the locule grow as hairs that project into the locule.”
      “As in most species of balsaminoid Ericales, raphides are found in the septa of the locule wall.”
loculi
  1. plural of loculus
  2. Examples:
    1. “In maize, the stomium is located at the meeting point of the two loculi that make up each half anther.”
      “No vascular tissue was present in the septum, which forms a partition in the pod cavity between the two loculi.”
      “Three sides of the mighty hall were lined with loculi or niches, each as deep as the length of a man.”
locules
  1. plural of locule
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