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Definition of Ovulate
1. Verb. Produce and discharge eggs. "Women ovulate about once every month"
Definition of Ovulate
1. a. Containing an ovule or ovules.
Definition of Ovulate
1. Verb. (intransitive) to produce eggs or ova ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ovulate
1. to produce ova [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Medical Definition of Ovulate
1. To produce ovules. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovulate
Literary usage of Ovulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"ovulate aments with bracted scales. Mature ovulate cone of dry scales. ...
Bracts of the ovulate aments not awn-tipped : staminate aments over 3 cm. long ..."
2. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"In the conelike strobilus the ovulate flowers are axillary, and contain a single
ovule, with no trace of stamens. FIG. 88. ..."
3. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"This elongated ovulate axis is not always associated with a bi- ... 105 there is
shown a transverse section of a young ovulate strobilus of ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It includes certain not conclusively determined ovulate cones from the Keuper of
Switzerland, resembling those of Zamia; and more convincing ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"on the other hand, incomplete ovulate flowers, which are very small and always
concealed by the staminate flowers, occur in the staminate inflorescence. ..."
6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... branches bearing ovulate strobili; 512, branches bearing stamina(e ...
showing staminate "flowers" in axils of bracts; 514, ovulate strobilus; 515, ..."
7. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"The scales of the ovulate cones are considered too complex to be called sporophylls,
... The ovulate structures of the Pine. A, branch bearing four ovulate ..."
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