| 释义 |
‖ ovarium|əʊˈvɛərɪəm|
Pl. -ia.
[mod.L. (16–17th c.) f. ōvum egg: see -arium. L. had ōvārius egg-keeper; Du Cange cites ōvāria fem., the ovary of a bird, from 13th c.]
1. Anat. and Zool. = ovary 1.
1692tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. 153/1. 1730 Hist. Litteraria I. 33 The Eggs made two clusters like the Ovaria of Birds. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 401 Conveying the ovum from the ovarium to the uterus.
2. Bot. = ovary 2.
[1750Linnæus Philos. Botan. §146.] 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. Gloss., Ovarium, the Germen. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. Introd. 30 An ovarium either consists of one or several connected pericarpial leaves..arranged around a common axis, or of several combined into a single body. 1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids iv. 131 In all Orchids the labellum..assumes its usual position as the lower lip, by the twisting of the ovarium. |