Theca

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The wall forming a calicle of a coral.

II. Theca ·noun The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral.

III. Theca ·noun The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids.

IV. Theca ·noun A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

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