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单词 mesotheque
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mesothequen.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; probably modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: meso- comb. form, Greek θήκη.
Etymology: < meso- comb. form + ancient Greek θήκη case, cover (see theca n.), in form probably after French -thèque, which occurs in a number of scientific terms parallel to English formations in -theca . Compare later mesotheca n. N.E.D. (1906, s.v. Meso-) gives the pronunciation of the second element as (-þīk) /-θiːk/.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
= mesotheca n.
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1859 G. J. Allman in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 140 Between these two is a third membrane, which has been hitherto overlooked... It is on the summit of this middle sac, or mesotheque, as it may be appropriately called,..that the short tentacles which crown the sporosac originate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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