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单词 metovum
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metovumn.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Metovum.
Etymology: < German Metovum (1874, in the passage translated in quot. 1879) < ancient Greek μετα- meta- prefix + classical Latin ōvum ovum n. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (metōu·vɒ̆m) /mɛˈtəʊvəm/.
Biology. Obsolete. rare.
Haeckel's name for: an ovum in its second stage of development, after formation of the yolk.
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1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. 223 The protovum is thus transformed into the metovum (after-egg) which is many times larger..but..is only a single..cell.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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