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Vitta

[vit-uh]

noun, plural vit·tae

[vit-ee] .

Botany. a tube or receptacle for oil, occurring in the fruits of most plants of the parsley family.

Zoology, Botany. a streak or stripe, as of color.

Origin:
1685–95; < Latin: ribbon, fillet, akin to viēre to weave together

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vitta (ˈvɪtə)

—n , pl -tae
1.	any of numerous tubelike cavities containing oil or resin that occur in the fruits of certain plants, esp of parsley and other umbellifers
2.	biology a band or stripe of colour

[C17: from Latin: headband; related to viēre to plait]

'vittate

—*adj*

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