Definitions for utricles

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utricles u·tri·cle

Spelling: [yoo-tri-kuh l]

IPA: /ˈyu trɪ kəl/

Utricles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in utricles (ceilrstu).

Definitions for utricles

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 utricles

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

Examples for utricles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.