See Ovum.
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1. Of the shape or figure of an egg; oblong; curvilinear; resembling the longitudinal section of an egg. It is sometimes synonymous with elliptical; but an ellipsis is equally broad at both ends, and is not strictly egg-shaped.
2. Pertaining to eggs; done in the egg; as oval conceptions.
A body or figure in the shape of an egg.
1. Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
2. Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
3. Broadly elliptical.
A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.
In an oval form.
Ovar
Encyclopedia Britannica
OVAR, a town of Portugal, in the district of Aveiro (Beira), with a station on the railway 20 miles south of Oporto, lies at the northern end of the Aveiro lagoon, —an extremely unhealthy position. It contains 10,022 inhabitants (1878), and carries on a brisk trade with the colonies and northern Africa.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 18, p. 76
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One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.
One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.
The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oophorectomy.
Consisting of eggs; as ovarious food.
Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.
1. That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
2. The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.
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