Crossword-Solution: OVULE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ovule | n. | 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. |
| Ovule | n. | An ovum. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVULE | anagram | LOVEU |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with OVULE (5)
The embryo-sac remains enclosed in the diploid ovule, and within this from the fertilised egg is formed the embryo which introduces the new diploid generation.
One way of solving the problem was for pollination to take place while the megaspore was still on the parent plant, and this is just what the formation of an ovule or seed was likely to secure.
There must sometimes be a physical impossibility in the male element reaching the ovule, as would be the case with a plant having a pistil too long for the pollen-tubes to reach the ovarium.
Tail or os coccyx.] Man is developed from an ovule, about the 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.
Now I am sure I remember some cases with plants in which important parts such as the position of the ovule differ: differences in the spire of leaves on lateral and terminal branches, etc.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 216 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).