Definitions for utricle

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utricle u·tri·cle

Spelling: [yoo-tri-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈyu trɪ kəl/

Utricle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 196 anagrams from letters in utricle (ceilrtu).

Definitions for utricle

noun

1. a small sac or baglike body, as an air-filled cavity in a seaweed.
2. Botany. a thin bladderlike pericarp or seed vessel.
3. Anatomy. the larger of two sacs in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear. Compare saccule (def 1).

Origin of utricle

1725-35; Latin utriculus, diminutive of uter bag; see -cle¹

Examples for utricle

Subsequently constrictions appear in the vesicle marking off the saccule and utricle.

The fruit is a utricle, having a single seed, encircled by a broad thin transparent membrane.

In animal cells the former is wanting, the membrane representing the utricle.

Pressure of the base of the stapes is exerted on the utricle.

Fruit a perfectly or incompletely 3-celled many-seeded capsule, or a 1-celled 1-seeded utricle.

A simple primordial cell or utricle, the most simply organized being, whether animal or vegetable matters little.

The base of the stapes communicates 723 pressures to the utricle.

utricle (pyxis) of Amaranth, opening all round (circumscissile).

Sepals 5, united below in an indurated cup, enclosing the utricle.

Calyx 5-parted, fleshy, enclosing the fruit (utricle) and often carinate or crested.