单词 | ovule |
释义 | ovulen. 1. a. Anatomy and Zoology. = ovum n. 1a. Cf. ovulum n. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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.]. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1762 |
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