Ootheca
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Noun
- An egg case of any of the orthopteroid insects (such as cockroaches and mantids).
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- 1990: Since the founding of the colony it had been a tradition to unload oothecae – egg sacs – in the cabinets so the younglings would be near the principal food stocks. — Daniel Evan Weiss, The Roaches Have No King
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