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Mesovarium :: Mesovarium (n.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.

Gonad :: Gonad (n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland..

Anther :: Anther (n.) That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary..

Amaryllideous :: Amaryllideous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family..

Basigynium :: Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore..

Adherent :: Adherent (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals..

Mesoarium :: Mesoarium (n.) The fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity.

Carpellum :: Carpellum (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore..

Ovarium :: Ovarium (n.) An ovary. See Ovary.

Grossification :: Grossification (n.) The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

Gynophore :: Gynophore (n.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower..

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta..

Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root..

Inferior :: Inferior (a.) Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx..

Pendulous :: Pendulous (a.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary..

Pseudocarp :: Pseudocarp (n.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig..

Decennovary :: Decennovary (a.) Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years.

Superior :: Superior (a.) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it..

Dissepiment :: Dissepiment (n.) One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.

Oviduct :: Oviduct (n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes..

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