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Meaning of "hectocotylus" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HECTOCOTYLUS

New Latin, from hecto- + Greek kotulē cup.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HECTOCOTYLUS

hectocotylus  [ˌhɛktəʊˈkɒtɪləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HECTOCOTYLUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hectocotylus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HECTOCOTYLUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hectocotylus

Hectocotylus

A hectocotylus is one of the arms of male cephalopods that is specialized to store and transfer spermatophores to the female. Structurally, hectocotyli are muscular hydrostats. Depending on the species, the male may use it merely as a conduit to the female, or he may wrench it off and present it to the female. The name hectocotylus was devised by Georges Cuvier, who first found one embedded in the mantle of a female argonaut. Supposing it to be a parasitic worm, Cuvier gave it a generic name. The hectocotyl arm was first described in the biological works of Aristotle, and it was widely disbelieved until its rediscovery in the nineteenth century.

Definition of hectocotylus in the English dictionary

The definition of hectocotylus in the dictionary is a tentacle in certain male cephalopod molluscs, such as the octopus, that is specialized for transferring spermatozoa to the female.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HECTOCOTYLUS


adactylous
eɪˈdæktɪləs
anisodactylous
ænˌaɪsəʊˈdæktɪləs
artiodactylous
ˌɑːtɪəʊˈdæktɪləs
brachydactylous
ˌbrækɪˈdæktɪləs
dactylus
ˈdæktɪləs
didactylous
daɪˈdæktɪləs
heterodactylous
ˌhɛtərəʊˈdæktɪləs
hexadactylous
ˌhɛksəˈdæktɪləs
hypocotylous
ˌhaɪpəˈkɒtɪləs
leptodactylous
ˌlɛptəʊˈdæktɪləs
macrodactylous
ˌmækrəʊˈdæktɪləs
monodactylous
ˌmɒnəʊˈdæktɪləs
nautilus
ˈnɔːtɪləs
pachydactylous
ˌpækɪˈdæktɪləs
perissodactylous
pəˌrɪsəʊˈdæktɪləs
polydactylous
ˌpɒlɪˈdæktɪləs
tetradactylous
ˌtɛtrəˈdæktɪləs
treatyless
ˈtriːtɪləs
tridactylous
traɪˈdæktɪləs
zygodactylous
ˌzaɪɡəʊˈdæktɪləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HECTOCOTYLUS

hecticly
hectocotyli
hectogram
hectogramme
hectograph
hectographic
hectographically
hectography
hectoliter
hectolitre
hectometer
hectometre
hector
hectorer
hectoring
hectoringly
hectorism
hectorly
hectorship
hectostere

WORDS THAT END LIKE HECTOCOTYLUS

Aeschylus
Angelus
bacillus
bolus
calculus
corylus
cumulus
homunculus
hydrocephalus
lactobacillus
malus
Marcellus
modulus
oculus
plus
Romulus
stimulus
stylus
surplus
Tellus

Synonyms and antonyms of hectocotylus in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «hectocotylus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HECTOCOTYLUS

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The translations of hectocotylus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hectocotylus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hectocotylus
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hectocotylus
570 millions of speakers

English

hectocotylus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hectocotylus
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

hectocotylus
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Гектокотиль
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hectocotylus
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hectocotylus
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hectocotylus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hectocotylus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hectocotylus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

交接腕
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hectocotylus
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hectocotylus
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hectocotylus
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hectocotylus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेक्टोकॉटीलस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hectocotylus
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hectocotylus
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hectocotylus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

гектокотіль
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hectocotylus
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

hectocotylus
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hectocotylus
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

hectocotylus
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

hectocotylus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hectocotylus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HECTOCOTYLUS»

The term «hectocotylus» is used very little and occupies the 186.379 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HECTOCOTYLUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hectocotylus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hectocotylus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hectocotylus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HECTOCOTYLUS»

Discover the use of hectocotylus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hectocotylus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Zoology
been developed in its own proper vesicle within the larger bladder, and of which the remains continue attached at the. extremity of the hectocotylus after it has allowed the filament to escape). The filament is tubular, its cavity is continuous with ...
Jan van der Hoeven, 1856
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Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of ...
The thick end of the Hectocotylus is fixed to the pedicle, while the thin coiled-up part is free. 4. By the bursting of the sac and the eversion of its edges, the pigmented capsule on the back of the Hectocotylus arises. 5. The testis lies in the  ...
Arthur Henfrey, Thomas Henry Huxley, 1853
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The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany ...
marked, that along each lateral margin this Hectocotylus bears fine cutaneous papillae in a longitudinal furrow ; these papillae, which are placed close together, and stand here and there in several close series, gave the fringed margin to the ...
‎1857
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Advances in Cephalopod Science: Biology, Ecology, ...
(e.g. some Cranchiidae; Nesis, 1995). This strategy is generally inferred from the presence of a hectocotylus in preserved specimens, but oceanic species from the family Ommastrephidae have also been observed to transfer sper- matophores ...
‎2014
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Cephalopod Behaviour
Spermatophores are extruded by the penis (P) from Needham's sac (NS) and passed along the hectocotylized third arm during mating, (b) Female internal anatomy. The hectocotylus is presumably inserted during mating into the distal oviduct ...
Roger T. Hanlon, John B. Messenger, 1998
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Cephalopods of the World: Chambered nautiluses and sepioids ...
Hectocotylus present, left dorsal arm modified: proximal end with fleshy pad formed from enlarged and/or fused sucker pedicels; copulatory apparatus a dome-shaped lobe medially and short, pointed, horn with smaller papilla between these; ...
P. Jereb, Clyde F. E. Roper, 2005
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Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist
Excitedly, he pronounced it one of the few parasites that infect only females, and created a new genus for it: Hectocotylus. Many years later someone discovered that Hectocotylus was merely the spermatophore-bearing tip of the fourth right ...
Eugene H. Kaplan, 2006
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Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, ...
A male argonauthas avery large hectocotylus, towhich it attacheshis spermatophore. That, as we haveseen, is nothing outofthe ordinary in the cephalopod world. But the male argonaut mates only once in hisentire life. He has no choice, ...
Menno Schilthuizen, 2014
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JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY
While the modified arm of the male thus early received attention, the true hectocotylus that separates entirely from the male and attaches itself in the mantle chamber of the female escaped notice for many centuries. To quote from the ...
‎1912
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Reproduction of Marine Invertebrates V4: Molluscs : ...
6.3.1 The Hectocotylus and Sexual Dimorphism The sexes are separate in all cephalopods and, unlike some other molluscs, the animals never change sex in the course of their lifetime. In most species males and females are rather alike in  ...
Arthur Giese, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HECTOCOTYLUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hectocotylus is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rainbow effect Fine Arts
Although she might never know the thrill of having sperm introduced into her mantle cavity by a mate's hectocotylus arm, she could inspire ... «Bay Area Reporter, Jun 15»
2
Cephlopods control body and arms with different parts of their brain
In fact, the penis is a ball of sperm in a tentacle called a hectocotylus and females can be fertilised by more than one, by storing them in the ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
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Nature's strangest sex rituals include an octopus with a detachable …
In fact, the penis is a ball of sperm in a tentacle called a hectocotylus and females can be fertilised by more than one, by storing them in the ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
4
How male octopuses avoid being eaten by hungry females
The male's main tool for this daunting endeavour is a specialized mating arm, known as the hectocotylus. When he is not engaged with a ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
5
Animal Sex Is Dangerous and Horrifying. So Why Does Sex Exist at …
When the two meet, he uses his own modified arm called a hectocotylus to transfer sperm into her oviduct. And as he's leaving, the arm snaps ... «Wired, Feb 15»
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Sex in the Wild: 6 Ways Animals Do It
The male inserts a detachable penis, called a hectocotylus, into the mantle cavity of the female, where he deposits sperm packets called ... «Live Science, Feb 15»
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Animal instincts
During sex with the female, the male will pass the hectocotylus into the female's cavity. In order to do this, the arm must first be severed, and the ... «Arizona Daily Wildcat, Feb 15»
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Animal Sex: How Octopuses Do It
Unlike females, "males have a modified third right arm called a hectocotylus, which has a sperm groove down it and a specialized tip," Mather ... «Live Science, Feb 15»
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7 Times When Tumblr Users Proved How Deep Their Disney Love Is
When octopuses reproduce, the male uses a specialized arm called a hectocotylus to transfer spermatophores (packets of sperm) from the ... «moviepilot.com, Jan 15»
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Beautiful Octopus Whose Sex Is …
Specifically, it's a specially adapted arm called a hectocotylus, “and there a little grooves on the arm that the sperm travels down and goes into ... «Wired, Jan 15»

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