spermathecum
An organ of the female reproductive tract that functions to receive and store sperm from the male, and can sometimes be the site of fertilization when the oocytes are ready.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Reproductive system > Spermathecae |
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Broader habitats
- organ
UBERON:0000062 - reproductive structure
UBERON:0005156 - Reproductive system
habitatmech:GOLD.21eb1adab2
Also called
- Spermathecae
- receptaculum seminis
- seminal receptacle
- spermatheca
- spermathecae
Curation
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REVIEW
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Risky-grounding review (#12): the flag is lexical, not substantive: the source label is a plural or a variant of the term's own label, so a word-overlap test sees a mismatch where there is none. Read against the source path, the term is the concept. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.010599a8ab)