Ovular: alternatives and connections

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropo…

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so…

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.

Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.

steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income)

The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule f…

An ovule.

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…

Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called als…