ALL meanings of ovum
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O o - noun plural ovum Cell Biology. the female reproductive cell or gamete of animals, which is capable of developing, usually only after fertilization, into a new individual. the female reproductive cell or gamete of plants. 1
- noun plural ovum Architecture. an oval ornament, as in an egg-and-dart molding. 1
- noun ovum egg released by an ovary 1
- countable noun ovum An ovum is one of the eggs of a woman or female animal. 0
- noun ovum an unfertilized female gamete; egg cell 0
- noun ovum a mature female germ cell which, generally only after fertilization, develops into a new member of the same species; female gamete; egg 0
- noun ovum an egg-shaped ornament 0