Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the paired female reproductive organs that produce eggs and female sex hormones in humans and other vertebrates.
- noun An analogous gland in an invertebrate animal, such as a flatworm or a mollusk.
- noun Botany The ovule-bearing lower part of a pistil that ripens into a fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of a female animal in which ova, eggs, or germs are generated and matured; the essential female organ of reproduction, corresponding to the testes of the male; the female genital gland or germ-gland; the ovarium.
- noun In botany, a closed case or receptacle, the lower section of the pistil, inclosing the ovules or young seeds, and ultimately becoming the fruit.
- Of or pertaining to an ovation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See
Illust. offlower . - noun (Zoöl. & Anat.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See
Illust. ofDiscophora .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A
female reproductive organ , oftenpaired , that producesova and in mammalssecretes thehormones estrogen andprogesterone . - noun botany The lower part of a
pistil orcarpel thatbears ovules andripens intofruit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the organ that bears the ovules of a flower
- noun (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As part of this study, a small portion of the ovary is surgically removed before starting cancer therapy.
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Fruit, in addition to being a ripened plant ovary, is designed to get animals to poop on the seeds.
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Two Mothers/Two Aunts: If a woman conceives a baby thanks to her sister's ovary, is she the baby's mother or aunt?
Medpundit 2005
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Two Mothers/Two Aunts: If a woman conceives a baby thanks to her sister's ovary, is she the baby's mother or aunt?
Archive 2005-06-01 2005
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The energetic imbalance of an overactive right ovary occurs when a woman takes on more projects than she can energetically sustain.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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The energetic imbalance of an absent right ovary occurs when a woman uses her creative energy but fails to maintain ownership of her creative direction.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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The energetic imbalance of an overactive right ovary occurs when a woman takes on more projects than she can energetically sustain.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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The energetic imbalance of an absent right ovary occurs when a woman uses her creative energy but fails to maintain ownership of her creative direction.
Wild Feminine Tami Lynn Kent 2011
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In the peach and cherry the pistil has three parts, a lower rounded, somewhat swollen part called the ovary, a slender stem arising from it called the style, and a slight enlargement at the top of the style called the stigma.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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We have seen that the ovule from the ovary is the female egg, or principle.
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