Index of English words, starting with "ov"

(1) - Oviparous (a.) Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.

(1) - Ovoid (n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.
(2) - Ovoid (a.) Alt. of Ovoidal

(1) - Ovulation (n.) The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation.

(1) - Ovule (n.) An ovum.
(2) - 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.

(1) - Ovum (n.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.
(2) - Ovum (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.