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Ovule   /ˈoʊvjul/   Listen
Ovule

noun
1.
A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization.
2.
A small or immature ovum.



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"Ovule" Quotes from Famous Books



... The ovule-bearing leaf has on the back a scale with fringed edge (F, sc.), quite conspicuous when the flower is young, but scarcely to be detected in the older cone. From the female flower is developed the cone (Fig. 75, A), but the process is a slow one, occupying ...
— Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany - For High Schools and Elementary College Courses • Douglas Houghton Campbell


Words linked to "Ovule" :   nucellus, micropyle, ovular, chalaza, ovum, egg cell, reproductive structure, seed, ovulate


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