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▪ I. ovary, n.|ˈəʊvərɪ|
[ad. mod.L. ōvāri-um: see prec. In F. ovaire masc. (1690 Furetière).]
1. Anat. and Zool. The female organ of reproduction in animals, in which ova or eggs are produced.
1658Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxviii. (ed. 3) 225 The ovary or part where the white involveth it, is in the second region of the matrix. 1677H. Sampson in Phil. Trans. XII. 1001 The right Testicle or Ovary was but small. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 42 The organs of generation..consist in each muscle of two ovaries, which are the female part of its furniture. 1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1842) 559 The Ovaries are two oblong flattened and oval bodies of a whitish colour, situated in the posterior layer of peritoneum of the broad ligaments. 1878Huxley Physiogr. xiv. 226 The female bird possesses an organ termed the ovary, in which nucleated cells, the primitive ova, which correspond with the embryo cells of the plant, are developed.
2. Bot. The organ in which the ovules of an angiospermous plant are produced, being the lowest part of the pistil in the flower, consisting of one or more carpels, which ultimately becomes the fruit or seed-vessel; the germen.
When separate from the calyx, it is termed a superior ovary; when adherent to the calyx, an inferior ovary.
1744J. Wilson Synops. Brit. Pl., Bot. Dict., Ovary, is the rudiment of fruit. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. i. 25 The Pistil..is divided into..the swollen base with three blunted angles, called the Germ or Ovary,..the Style,..the Stigma. 1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 363. 1872 Oliver Elem. Bot. i. iii. 23 The ovary contains a minute seed-bud, the ovule.
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1849Sears Regenerat. i. v. (1859) 42 There is a sensuous nature which includes the ovaries of the worst of vices.
▪ II. † ˈovary, a. Obs.
[Erroneous for L. ovālis, oval a.2]
Of or pertaining to an ovation.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts ii. (1683) 91 Their honorary Crowns triumphal, ovary, civical, obsidional, had little of Flowers in them. |