thecal
adjEtymology From theca + -al.
1
Of or pertaining to a theca.
2
Possessing a theca.
- The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6:
- Derived terms
- dithecal, extrathecal, holothecal, interthecal, intrathecal, monothecal, perithecal, schizothecal, subthecal, tetrathecal
- Related terms
- theca