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Ovary

noun

(pl. ovaries)

The organ that bears the ovules of a flower.

(vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone.

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"Ovary" Quotes from Famous Books

... this. "I've done some science myself. I did my Biology at University College,—getting out the ovary of the earthworm and the radula of the snail, and all that. Lord! It's ten years ago. But go on! go on! ...

— The Island of Doctor Moreau • H. G. Wells

... sexes have come into contact with one another, and from that conjunction, from that union which then takes place, there results the formation of a new being. At stated times the mare, from a particular part of the interior of her body, called the ovary, gets rid of a minute particle of matter comparable in all essential respects with that which we called a cell a little while since, which cell contains a kind of nucleus in its centre, surrounded by a clear space and by a viscid mass of protein substance (Figure ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

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