colleterium

English

Etymology

See colletic.

Noun

colleterium (plural colleteria)

1. (zoology) An organ, in female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.

Derived terms

• colleterial

 

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “colleterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)