Crossword-Solution: OVA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ova | n. pl. | See Ovum. |
| Ova | pl. | of Ovum |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVA | anagram | AVO, VOA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVA (5)
Jarvis gives the history of a strange and repeated hemorrhage from the nose and adjacent parts that was found to be due to maggots from the ova of a fly, which had been deposited in the nose while the patient was asleep.
Follow the course of opinion on the great subjects of human interest for a few generations or centuries, get its parallax, map out a small arc of its movement, see where it tends, and then see who is in advance of it or even with it; the world calls him hard names, probably; but if you would find the _ova_ of the future, you must look into the folds of his cerebral convolutions.
The reproductive glands, it should not be forgotten, belong to this group, and besides their ordinary products, the germ and sperm cells (ova and spermatozoa) form HORMONES which circulate in the blood and effect changes in the cells of distant parts of the body.
The numerical excess of the spermatozoa over the ova in the sea-water is the only guarantee that the eggs are fertilised, for the spermatozoa are carried to the eggs by chance and are not attracted by the latter.
Thus fishes still alive are not very rarely dropped at distant points by whirlwinds; and it is known that the ova retain their vitality for a considerable time after removal from the water.
Quotes with OVA (1)
Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef. But when the tide goes out the little water world becomes quiet and lovely. The sea is very clear and the bottom becomes fantastic with hurrying, fighting, feeding, breeding animals. Crabs rush from frond to frond of the waving algae. S…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,381 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).