Definition of Ovle
O"vule (?), n. [Dim. of L. ovum
an egg: cf. F. ovule. Cf. Ovolo, Ovulum.]
(Biol.) (a) 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.
(b) An ovum.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
- (zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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