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Ovule
The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.
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A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells,…
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of Seed
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Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
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Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.
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Containing an ovule or ovules.
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Containing an ovule or ovules.
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The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.
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An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.
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See Nucleus, 3 (a).
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