Crossword-Solution: THECA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Theca | n. | 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. |
| Theca | n. | The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids. |
| Theca | n. | The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral. |
| Theca | n. | The wall forming a calicle of a coral. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| THECA | anagram | CHAET, CHEAT, ETCHA, TACHE, TEACH |
We have 4 clues for the answer “THECA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Spore case | 2 answers |
| PLANT capsule | 3 answers |
| Outer covering | 11 answers |
| Receptacle | 36 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZCMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THECA (5)
Besides these, however, the same ancient schists have yielded two genera of brachiopods, _Orthis_ and _Orbicula,_ a Pteropod of the genus _Theca,_ and four echinoderms of the cystidean family.
That there are many kinds of elect, and of repenting sinners: and how all of theca shall receive a reward proportionable to the measure of their repentance and good works.
Numbers of ova die without reaching maturity, the follicular cells degenerate, and the follicle becomes filled with the cells of the theca interna, which have a resemblance to those of the true corpus luteum.
The appearance of those I have described as existing about the points of growth, are exactly the same as the processes mixed with the anthers of mosses, and of which the anthers are nothing but more developed growths; this would point out, as indeed appears to me otherwise evident, (especially from consideration of the theca, and its want of style,) that ferns are lower organised as sexual beings than mosses and Hepaticae.
The various forms therefore may not depend proximately on fructification itself, but on the peculiar growth given to the species, in the same way in fact as we have the numerous modifications of the theca in mosses, etc.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1975–1988).