(n) the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community, Syn. ulama
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n. [ L. loculamentum case, box, fr. loculus a compartment, dim. of locus place. ] (Bot.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged. [ 1913 Webster ]