OVULE
\ˈɒvjuːl], \ˈɒvjuːl], \ˈɒ_v_j_uː_l]\
Definitions of OVULE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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An ovum.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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An ovum.
By Noah Webster.
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1. The ovum of a mammal, especially while still in the Graafian follicle. 2. A small bead-like structure bearing a fancied resemblance to an ovule; see Naboth's glands. 3. In botany, an embryonic seed.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Ovulum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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