OVARY
\ˈə͡ʊvəɹi], \ˈəʊvəɹi], \ˈəʊ_v_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of OVARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the organ that bears the ovules of a flower
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(vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone
By Princeton University
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the organ that bears the ovules of a flower
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one of usually two organs that produce ova and (in vertebrates) secrete estrogen and progesterone
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
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The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.
By Oddity Software
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That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
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The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.
By Noah Webster.
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Either of the paired glands in the female that produce the female germ cells and secrete some of the female sex hormones.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The organ in a female animal in which the ova, or first germs of future life, are formed; the hollow seed-case of a plant.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Ovarian.
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The part of the female animal in which the egg of the offspring is formed: (bot.) the part of the pistil which contains the seed.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Female organ of generation, secreting the ovules before fecundation.
By William R. Warner
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The structure in which the ova are developed. In the human species the ovaries are two flattened, oval bodies, one on each side, situated in the posterior layer of the broad ligament of the uterus, each averaging about 1 1/2 in. long, 3/4 in wide, and 1/2 in. thick. The organ weighs from 60 to 100 grains. Its two sides and the upper border are free; the lower border (the hilum) is attached to the broad ligament; and to the upper end is attached one of the fimbriae of the oviduct, [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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