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oˈvariole
[ad. L. type *ōvāriol-um, dim. of mod.L. ōvārium: see below.]
A small ovary; one of the tubular glands of the compound ovary of some insects.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 417 The finely tapering anterior ends of the ovarioles of each side are continued forwards by delicate cellular prolongations. 1925A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 147 Each organ [sc. ovary] is composed of a variable number of separate egg-tubes or ovarioles which open into the oviduct. 1965B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleol. xxii. 364 The female of Aphaenops..has a single ovariole on each side of the body. 1976Nature 17 June 614/2 Cells which display the highest levels are those which have been assumed to be the most active and specialised, such as..the trophocytes of insect ovarioles. |