noun
- a small cavity or compartment within a plant structure, especially in fruits, anthers, or ovaries
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The orange has several locules containing the juice and seeds.
- Each locule of the capsule contained numerous small seeds.
- The botanist examined the locules within the flower’s ovary.
- The fruit’s locules were clearly visible when cut in cross-section.
- Pollen is produced in the locules of the anther.
- The seed pod split open to reveal three distinct locules.