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"Any of several external cases or sheaths.",
"A sporangium: a spore case."
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"sheath",
"sheath"
],
[
"microbiology",
"microbiology"
],
[
"mycology",
"mycology"
],
[
"sporangium",
"sporangium"
],
[
"spore case",
"spore case"
]
],
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"(biology) Any of several external cases or sheaths.",
"(biology, microbiology, mycology) A sporangium: a spore case."
],
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"en:external case or sheath in biology, broadly",
"en:sporangium"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"microbiology",
"mycology",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Christianity"
],
"glosses": [
"A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist."
],
"links": [
[
"Christianity",
"Christianity"
],
[
"corporal",
"corporal"
],
[
"cloth",
"cloth"
],
[
"Eucharist",
"Eucharist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Christianity) A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist."
],
"senseid": [
"en:case for cloth for Eucharist"
],
"topics": [
"Christianity"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈθiːkə/"
},
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}
],
"word": "theca"
}
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