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- English Word Ovoid Definition Alt. of Ovoidal
- English Word Ovoid Definition A solid resembling an egg in shape.
- English Word Ovoidal Definition Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.
- English Word Ovolo Definition A round, convex molding. See Illust. of Column.
- English Word Ovology Definition That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.
- English Word Ovoplasma Definition Yolk; egg yolk.
- English Word Ovotesttis Definition An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
- English Word Ovoviviparous Definition Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.
- English Word Ovula Definition of Ovulum
- English Word Ovular Definition Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
- English Word Ovulary Definition Pertaining to ovules.
- English Word Ovulate Definition Containing an ovule or ovules.
- English Word Ovulation Definition The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation.
- English Word Ovule Definition The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.
- English Word Ovule Definition An ovum.
- English Word Ovuliferous Definition Producing ovules.
- English Word Ovulist Definition A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.
- English Word Ovulite Definition A fossil egg.
- English Word Ovulum Definition An ovule.
- English Word Ovum Definition A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.