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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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Ovum 76% connected

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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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Ovular 74% connected

Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ovular 74% connected

Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Ovulate 74% connected

Containing an ovule or ovules.

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Ovulate 74% connected

Containing an ovule or ovules.

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Chalaza 70% connected

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

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Micropyle 70% connected

An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.

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Nucellus 70% connected

See Nucleus, 3 (a).

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