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单词 ovule
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ovulen.

Brit. /ˈɒvjuːl/, /ˈəʊvjuːl/, U.S. /ˈoʊvˌjul/, /ˈɑvˌjul/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ovulum.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin ovulum ovulum n.; compare -ule suffix. With sense 2 compare French ovule (1798). Compare earlier ovulum n. N.E.D. (1904) gives only the pronunciation (ōu·viul) /ˈəʊvjuːl/.
1.
a. Anatomy and Zoology. = ovum n. 1a. Cf. ovulum n. 1. Now rare.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > ovum or ootid
ovum1672
ovulum1698
ovule1762
ovigerm1851
ovicell1869
oosphere1875
ootid1898
1762 Amer. Gazetteer II. at Guadaloupe The negroes say these are the bees excrements; but they would seem rather to be the impregnated ovules in a state towards the formation of insects.
1854 Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 1850–54 6 55 The discovery of the ovule and its remains in the fluid matter of the Fallopian tubes.
1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) iv. §156. 72 The ovules have been seen to escape by the mouth; and this..appears to be the general mode in all the Actinoid polyps.
1906 Science 21 Dec. 817/2 All of the foetuses are enveloped in a common chorion and belong, therefore, to the type of true twins. Rosner..explains this fact by the habitual presence of several ovules in a single graafian follicle.
1920 M. Sanger Woman & New Race x. 123 At the time the ovule is ripening, the womb is preparing to receive it.
1999 F. Cabrillo Econ. of Family & Family Policy 7 A female..from the time of ovule formation to the time when the offspring reaches adulthood, invests..so much effort in the process..[etc.].
b. Anatomy ovule of Naboth n. a Nabothian cyst; cf. ovulum of Naboth n. at ovulum n. 1b. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > cyst
wenc1000
crop1599
steatoma1599
hydatid1683
atheroma1706
cyst1731
sac1802
hygroma1813
galactocele1850
dacryops1857
ovule of Naboth1857
hydatid of Morgagni1858
thrombocyst1860
monocyst1869
cystoid1872
cystoma1876
sarcocyst1892
Baker's cyst1893
milk thrombus1895
sweat-cyst1898
tubulocystc1900
sweat vesicle1901
seroma1919
macrocyst1953
macrocyst1980
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Nabothian glands, the glands, ovules or little eggs of Naboth; applied to small glandular bodies situated within the mouth of the uterus.
2. Botany. In a spermatophyte: a small rounded structure which consists of the female gamete within a mass of tissue (the nucellus) surrounded by one or two protective integuments, and which develops into the seed after fertilization. Cf. ovulum n. 2.In gymnosperms, the ovule is borne on a cone scale; in angiosperms, it is enclosed in the ovary of the flower.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > ovule
ovum1703
ovulum1786
ovule1800
nucellus1882
1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. I. 103 In some of the Verbenaceæ, the soft substance of the ovary, by which the ovules were kept bound together, at maturity becomes perfectly dry.
1829 P. Clinton tr. A. Richard New Elem. Bot. (ed. 4) 317 One or more cavities called cells, which contain the rudiments of the seeds or the ovules [Fr. ovules].
1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) i. 72 The young seeds, or ovules, as they are named before they have been subjected to the fertilizing influence of the pollen.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §8. 277 In the simplest form of ovule, hilum and chalaza are one.
1939 D. C. Peattie Flowering Earth 138 Neither is the Gymnosperm egg or ovule completely enclosed in an ovary, as in the true flowers.
1950 P. Maheshwari Introd. Embryol. Angiosperms vi. 183 The tube may enter the ovule either through the micropyle or by some other route. The former is the usual condition and is known as porogamy.
1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 115 One kind of primitive pistil..is like a folded..leaf, with ovules arising on the adaxial surface but appearing marginal.

Compounds

ovule-bearing adj.
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1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised v. 207 The three proper ovule-bearing cords or segments.
1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist 310 Its leaves are ‘needles’... But its ovule-bearing flower..does not..have any resemblance to a ‘cone’.
1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) v. 374 Gymnosperms..produce pollen cones (male) and seed cones (ovule-bearing, female).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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