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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. • (n.) An ovum.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/ovule/
    
    
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    ovule
    plant structure that develops into a seed when fertilized. In gymnosperms (conifers and allies) the ovules lie uncovered on the scales of the cone. ... [14 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/42
    
    
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    ovule
    A structure found in seed plants (gymnosperms and angiosperms) that develops into a seed after fertilization of an egg-cell within it. In gymnosperms the ovules are unprotected; in angiosperms the ovule is protected by the megasporophyll which forms a closed structure (carpel) within which they form...
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/ovule.html
    
    
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    ovule
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ov′yūl, ō′vū- Definitions: 1. The oocyte of a mammal, especially while still in the ovarian follicle. 2. A small beadlike structure bearing a fancied resemblance to an ovule. Synonyms: ovulum
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=64137
    
    
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    ovule
    Structure found in seed plants that develops into a seed after fertilization. It consists of an embryo sac containing the female gamete (ovum or egg cell), surrounded by nutritive tissue, the nucellus. Outside this there are one or two coverings that provide protection, developing into the testa, or...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006967.html
    
    
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    Ovule
    the structure that develops into the seed inside the ovary
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21767
    
    
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    Ovule
    The unfertilised seed of a plant.
    Found op http://www.knotweed-uk.com/Glossary.htm
    
    
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    ovule
    loosely, the seed before fertilization; a structure in a seed plant within which one or more megaspores are formed (after fertilization it develops into a seed).
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_botanical_terms
    
    
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    ovule
    1) Botanical seed 2) Embryo 3) Embryo sac encloser 4) Embryo-sac encloser 5) Fertility site 6) Fertilization site 7) Future seed 8) Growing egg 9) Immature egg 10) Immature seed 11) In seed plants, the structure which gives...
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/ovule/1
    
    

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