Ovary vs. Ovule

Ovarynoun

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

Ovarynoun

(botany) The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.

Ovarynoun

That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

Ovarynoun

The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

Ovarynoun

the organ that bears the ovules of a flower

Ovarynoun

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

Ovary

The ovary is an organ found in the female reproductive system that produces an ovum. When released, this travels down the fallopian tube into the uterus, where it may become fertilized by a sperm.

Ovulenoun

(botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.

Ovulenoun

(zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.

Ovulenoun

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.

Ovulenoun

a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization

Ovulenoun

a small or immature ovum

Ovule

In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells. It consists of three parts: the integument, forming its outer layer, the nucellus (or remnant of the megasporangium), and the female gametophyte (formed from a haploid megaspore) in its center.