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Ovary   Listen
noun
Ovary  n.  (pl. ovaries)  
1.
(Bot.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit.
2.
(Zool. & Anat.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced.





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... dropped or carried by some external agent, wind, water or some member of the animal kingdom, on to the receptive surface of the carpel of the same or another flower. The carpel, or aggregate of carpels forming the pistil or gynaeceum, comprises an ovary containing one or more ovules and a receptive surface or stigma; the stigma is sometimes carried up on a style. The mature pollen-grain is, like other spores, a single cell; except in the case of some submerged aquatic plants, it has a double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various


Words linked to "Ovary" :   craniate, female internal reproductive organ, placenta, sex gland, female reproductive system, flower, vertebrate, arteria ovarica, Graafian follicle, bloom, reproductive structure, blossom, ovarian, gonad


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