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Definition of Ovule
1. Noun. A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization.
Terms within: Chalaza, Nucellus, Micropyle
Specialized synonyms: Amphitropous Ovule, Anatropous Ovule, Campylotropous Ovule, Orthotropous Ovule, Seed
Derivative terms: Ovular
2. Noun. A small or immature ovum.
Definition of Ovule
1. n. 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.
Definition of Ovule
1. Noun. (botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) An immature ovum in mammals. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ovule
1. a rudimentary seed [n -S] : OVULAR, OVULARY [adj]
Medical Definition of Ovule
1. A structure in seed plants which contains the megasporangium (nucellus), megaspore (embryo sac), a food store, and a coat, and develops into a seed after fertilization. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovule
Literary usage of Ovule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The ovule is usually contained in an ovary, and all plants in which the ovule is so
... In Cycas the altered leaf, upon the margin of which the ovule is ..."
2. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"angiosperms shows that in the latter the nucleus divides, but that the division
stops here, no true dividing-wall being formed. J) 1134. ovule of ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"ovule solitary; stamens 2 to many. c. Fis. of botn sexes in globose long- ...
Stamens not elastic: ovule DD. Male perianth wanting, sometimes grown to the ..."
4. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"In rare cases the ovary contains a single ovule, springing from its base and ...
A longitudinal median section through such a typical ovule (eg Buckwheat, ..."
5. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"If such an ovule were to grow on one side more than on the other, and double up,
or have its top pushed round as it enlarges, it would become a Campy lot ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Then if a primine be formed it covers all the free part of the ovule, ...
These may be taken as the three typos of ovule in the vegetable kingdom ..."
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