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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Dim. of L.

ovum

an egg: cf. F.

ovule

. Cf.

(Biol.)

(a)

The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the

hilum

, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the

chalaza

, and their minute orifice is the

foramen

(b)

An ovum.

See also: ovule

ovulé m ‎(feminine singular ovulée, masculine plural ovulés, feminine plural ovulées)

ovulé