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Theca

Theca | Thecable

Theca meaning

Any of several external cases or sheaths. | The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther. | Any of several external cases or sheaths.

Example sentences (2)

The filaments are fused to the corolla, while the anthers are generally connate (syngenesious anthers), thus forming a sort of tube around the style (theca).

The zygote sheds its silica theca and grows into a large sphere covered by an organic membrane, the auxospore.