| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | o·vule |
| PRONUNCIATION: |    vy l,  vyl |
| NOUN: | 1. Botany A minute structure in seed plants, containing the embryo sac and surrounded by the nucellus, that develops into a seed after fertilization. 2. Zoology A small or immature ovum. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin vulum, diminutive of Latin vum, egg. See awi- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | ovu·lar (vy -lr, vy-) , ovu·lar y (-l r ) —ADJECTIVE
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