Crossword-Solution: OVARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ovary | n. | That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower. |
| Ovary | n. | The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
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greedy person
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Sentences with OVARY (5)
Storer, Clay, Tait, and the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review report cases in which menstruation took place with neither uterus nor ovary.
The numerous ovules borne on the central receptacle are stalked, and are intermixed with sterile scales; the latter are expanded at their outer ends, which are united to form a kind of pericarp or ovary-wall, only interrupted by the protruding micropyles of the ovules.
Hilaire gives the following cases: the genus Zanthoxylon belongs to a division of the Rutaceæ with a single ovary, but in some species flowers may be found on the same plant, and even in the same panicle, with either one or two ovaries.
After writing to you, I looked at vessels of ovary of a sweet-pea, and from this and other cases I believe that in the ovary the midrib vessel alone gives homologies, and that the vessels on the edge of the carpel leaf often run into the wrong bundle, just like those on the sides of the sepals.
THE FUSION OF HOMOLOGOUS PARTS—THE VARIABILITY OF MULTIPLE AND HOMOLOGOUS PARTS—COMPENSATION OF GROWTH—MECHANICAL PRESSURE—RELATIVE POSITION OF FLOWERS WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS, AND OF SEEDS IN THE OVARY, AS INDUCING VARIATION—ANALOGOUS OR PARALLEL VARIETIES—SUMMARY OF THE THREE LAST CHAPTERS.
Quotes with OVARY (2)
What is a berry? It is an ovary swaddled within a sugary womb. Plainly put, a berry is the fruition of a flower - the ultimate tautology.
People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 125 times in crossword archives (1980–2025).