Definition of theca

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Theca (n.) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.

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Pharmacy :: Pharmacy (n.) A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.
Basigynium :: Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore..
Sertularian :: Sertularian (n.) Any species of Sertularia, or of Sertularidae, a family of hydroids having branched chitinous stems and simple sessile hydrothecae. Also used adjectively..
Ootheca :: Ootheca (n.) An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium..
Hypothecating :: Hypothecating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hypothecat.
Potecary :: Potecary (n.) An apothecary.
Glyptotheca :: Glyptotheca (n.) A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.
Weight :: Weight (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight..
Apothecary :: Apothecary (n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
Hydrotheca :: Hydrotheca (n.) One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora), protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian..
Officinal :: Officinal (a.) Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.
Hydrothecas :: Hydrothecas (pl. ) of Hydrothec.
Thecae :: Thecae (pl. ) of Thec.
Hypotheca :: Hypotheca (n.) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.
Hydrothecae :: Hydrothecae (pl. ) of Hydrothec.
Theca :: Theca (n.) The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.
Gymnotoka :: Gymnotoka (n. pl.) The Athecata.
Gnathotheca :: Gnathotheca (n.) The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
Dram :: Dram (n.) A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains..
Pharmaceutist :: Pharmaceutist (n.) One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.
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