The ovule is a part of every ovary just as the pollen is a part of every anther.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference

If the ovary is split open, within it will be found a little body called an ovule, which is to develop into a seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Book of Farming] Reference

The two sperm cells enter the ovule - in the ovule are a diploid cell called the polar nucleus and a haploid female gamete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

He can be told that "ovule" means little egg, and that the seed of the plant is the egg of the plant, which hatches -- sprouts -- into the plant we see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference

"ovule" means little egg; later, a word almost identical will be used for the eggs of animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference

Pollen in ovule of passion flower (S.J. Salter) 185 100.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Such an inverted ovule is called technically, "anatropous.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

In no instance was there a perfect ovule, or, indeed, any trace of ovules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

We have seen that the ovule from the ovary is the female egg, or principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The development of the ovule in the womb is known as gestation or pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference

Before a child is possible, however, the ovule must meet the egg from the male.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

We have already examined in some detail the structure of the macrosporangium or ovule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The ovule, or future seed, is now fertilized and capable of producing a future primrose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference

On one of the leaves of this latter was found an imperfect ovule -- an ovule on an ovule!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The ovule or egg is now in the cavity of the womb where we will leave it for the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

= -- The nature of the ovule and of its coverings has been a fertile source of controversy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

The ovule will be thus rendered transparent, and by pressing gently on the cover glass with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The full-grown ovule may be readily sectioned, and a general idea of its structure obtained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

A careful longitudinal section of the scale through the ovule will show the general structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The ovule we may regard as the human female egg, and one ripens and falls out every twenty-eight days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The outer coating of the ovule here contained barred or spiral fusiform vessels derived from the source just indicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

If I have pollen which is quite ripe I may perhaps catch it upon an ovule, but if it is not ripe I won't got the cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914] Reference

This fills up the whole seed which is surrounded by the hardened shell derived from the integument and wall of the ovule.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

The pollen spores now sift down to the base of the scales, and finally reach the opening of the ovule, where they germinate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference

And when a pollen grain lands on a pistil and joins with the ovule prepared in the ovary, the two components are united again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

The process is one of continued cell division and growth, and while it goes on the ovule sticks to the inner wall of the womb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference

The outer tegument of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united along its margins, but always more or less open at its apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference