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单词 ovular
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ovularn.

Brit. /ˈɒvjᵿlɑː/, U.S. /ˈoʊvjəˌlɑr/, /ˈɑvjəˌlɑr/
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: seminar n.2
Etymology: Punning alteration of seminar n.2, with semin- (see seminate v.) replaced by ovul- (in ovulate v., etc.).
In feminist use: a seminar, a discussion group.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > seminar
workshop1912
clinic1919
seminar1944
teach-in1965
ovular1986
1986 New Leader (Nexis) 10 Mar. 20/1 It is in the present that, in Women's Studies, Goddard College has ovulars rather than seminars.
1992 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 26 July 53 We're used to TV seminars, or at least ovulars, in which girlies share the emotions and even the gynaecological plumbing aspects of getting men into the sack.
1996 R. H. Bork Slouching towards Gomorrah ii. xi. 217 So ideologically crazed are some feminist academics that their seminars are now called ‘ovulars’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

ovularadj.

Brit. /ˈɒvjᵿlə/, /ˈəʊvjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˈoʊvjələr/, /ˈɑvjələr/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ovule n., -ar suffix1.
Etymology: < ovule n. + -ar suffix1. Compare French ovulaire (1820). N.E.D. (1904) gives only the pronunciation (ōu·viulăɹ) /ˈəʊvjuːlə(r)/.
Biology.
Relating to, of the nature of, or involving an ovule or ovules, or an ovum or ova.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > ovum
oval1646
ovarious1730
oviferous1828
ovular1848
ovulary1848
ovuliferous1848
multiovular1849
multiovulate1857
ovigenous1872
moruloid1880
ovuligerous1888
ovoblastic1922
1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) I. 393 Doubtless these [leaves] were the organs which should have constituted the ovular membranes.
1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 68 The foetal surface has..a smooth, glistening appearance, which it obtains from the two ovular membranes.
1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Abortion, ovular, abortion occurring before the twentieth day of pregnancy.
1932 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 19 781 Many counts have been made in various ovular tissues.
1979 W. F. R. Stewart Sexual Aspects Social Work (BNC) 32 The ovular cell divides inside the zona pellucida and separates into one cell and one ‘polar body’.
1993 Utne Reader Jan. 55/1 Gearheart is an advocate of ovular merging, a process that involves the mating of two eggs, which has been successfully accomplished with mice. Only female offspring are produced.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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