Definition of Atoke

1. a sexless part of some worms [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atoke

atmospheric static
atmospheric tide
atmospherical
atmospherically
atmospherics
atmospherization
atmospherology
atmosphære
atmosphæric
atoc
atocia
atocias
atocs
atok
atokal
atokes
atokite
atoks
atole
atoll
atoll fruit dove
atolls
atom-bomb
atom bomb
atom bombs
atom physics
atom smasher

Literary usage of Atoke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"... slowly-moving young (atoke) becomes so altered at sexual maturity as to have been described under another name. It becomes very active in its movements, ..."

2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"They are also not as numerous as those cells.1 The eyes in the large atoke individuals, found amongst algae upon buoys, etc., have the same structures as in ..."

3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... of the animal with the sexual products differs from the forward part (atoke) in appearance and the animal is called a ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1829)
"... and to Beeching-atoke in 1779 by JW Hene. age, esq. Within these last few years he rebuilt, at his own expence, the parsonage. house at Hewish, ..."

5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1855)
"A portion of the monks having assembled around his bed, he begged them to forgive him, if through the sinfulness cleaving to all atoke, he had wronged any ..."

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