ovul

a. (Biol.) Pertaining to ovules. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Containing an ovule or ovules. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Physiol.) To produce ova and discharge them from an ovary or ovarian follicle. [ PJC ]

n. (Physiol.) The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the human female the discharge occurs about halfway between menstruation times. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Dim. of L. ovum an egg: cf. F. ovule. Cf. Ovolo, Ovulum. ] (Biol.) (a) 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. (b) An ovum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ovule + -ferous. ] (Biol.) Producing ovules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ovum + -lite. ] A fossil egg. [ 1913 Webster ]