ovum 的定义
plural o·va [oh-vuh]. /ˈoʊ və/.
- Cell Biology. the female reproductive cell or gamete of animals, which is capable of developing, usually only after fertilization, into a new individual.the female reproductive cell or gamete of plants.
- Architecture. an oval ornament, as in an egg-and-dart molding.
ovum 近义词
female reproductive cell
更多ovum例句
- The ovum of Amphioxus contains very little food material and its segmentation is quite uniform.
- A section of the embryo, as we may now call the ovum, is represented in Plate 5, fig.
- The bulk of the ovum is composed of yolk spherules, imbedded in a protoplasmic matrix.
- It contains in fact a larger bulk of active protoplasm, as compared with yolk-granules, than does the remainder of the ovum.
- The outer of the three is composed of the largest-sized yolk-spherules which constitute the greater part of the ovum.