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Ovule, in botany, name applied to immature seeds, which are produced within the ovary of a flower. In flowering plants, the development of the ovule...

Ovule: quotation

Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.

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Seed, term applied to the ripened ovule of a seed plant before germination. Seeds of the angiosperm, or flowering plant, differ from those of the ...

- small plant part developing into seed: a small structure in a seed plant that contains the embryo sac and develops into a seed after fertilization
- immature egg: a small or immature egg

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	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Ovule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ovule literally means "small egg." In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells. It consists of three parts: ovule - definition of ovule by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus ... o·vule (vy l, v y l) n. 1. Botany A minute structure in seed plants, containing the embryo sac and surrounded by the nucellus, that develops into a seed after fertilization. ovule - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about ovule ovule. Structure found in seed plants that develops into a seed after fertilization. It consists of an embryo sac containing the female gamete (ovum or egg cell), surrounded by ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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