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Definition of ovule

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Ovule (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..

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Secundine :: Secundine (n.) The second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine..

Pistil :: Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

Fertilization :: Fertilization (n.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation..

Ovuliferous :: Ovuliferous (a.) Producing ovules.

Exostome :: Exostome (n.) The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

Campylotropous :: Campylotropous (a.) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together..

Endostome :: Endostome (n.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

Spore :: Spore (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.

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

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..

Nucleus :: Nucleus (n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

Ovulate :: Ovulate (a.) Containing an ovule or ovules.

Seed :: Seed (n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant..

Tercine :: Tercine (n.) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

Rhaphe :: Rhaphe (n.) The continuation of the seed stalk along the side of an anatropous ovule or seed, forming a ridge or seam..

Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

Primine :: Primine (n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

Hemitropous :: Hemitropous (a.) Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.

Podosperm :: Podosperm (n.) The stalk of a seed or ovule.

Orthotropous :: Orthotropous (a.) Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.