multilocular
adjEtymology By surface analysis, multi- + locule + -ar.
1
Having multiple or many locules or loculi (chambers, cells, or compartments).
- Apothecia lecanoroid; multilocular; each cell containing a single theke; paraphyses deficient.1882, Edward Tuckerman, Henry Willey, A Synopsis of the North American Lichens (part 1)
- Derived terms
- multilocularity, pseudomultilocular
- Related terms
- multicameral, multicellular, multicompartmental, multilobar, multilobular