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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..

Spermaphore :: Spermaphore (n.) That part of the ovary from which the ovules arise; the placenta.

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

Epigynous :: Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk..

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

Endocarp :: Endocarp (n.) The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

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..

Ovary :: Ovary (n.) That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower..

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

Pericarp :: Pericarp (n.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume..

Lily :: Lily (n.) A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary..

Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..

Ovulation :: Ovulation (n.) The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation..

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

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..

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..

Ovary :: Ovary (n.) The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

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

Syncategorematic :: Syncarpous (a.) Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Loculus :: Loculus (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.

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