Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ovule"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ovule \O"vule\, 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ovule
n 1: a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant;
develops into a seed after fertilization
2: a small or immature ovum
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