Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
ovarium .
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- noun Plural form of
ovarium .
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Examples
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It does not appear, however, that any of the fringes along the air-bladder have ever arrived at such a size and appearance as to have justified any one in the supposition that they were ovaria, though, as has been stated, distinguished naturalists, from the time of Aristotle to the present moment, have been endeavouring to ascertain this fact.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. Various
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In Punica, the structure of the ovaria is highly curious.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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To the _ovaria_, I could not find any Fallopian tube.
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The _vagina_ passed on, as in the cow, to the opening of the _urethra_, and then it began to contract into a small canal, which passed on into the division of the _uterus_ into the two horns; each horn passed along the edge of the broad ligament laterally toward the _ovaria_.
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Medio antheras bipoross confertissimas, sessiles, numerosas, basi ovaria distantiora gerens.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Lastly, are the _ovaria_, or egg-bags of the Cuttle-fish, which are popularly called _sea-grapes_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 562, Saturday, August 18, 1832. Various
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Such latent tendency would be shown by their producing the red feathers when old or diseased in their ovaria.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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Such latent tendency would be shown by their producing the red feathers when old or diseased in their ovaria.
Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916
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In one section of the Malpighiaceæ the closed flowers, according to A. de Jussieu, are still further modified, for the five stamens which stand opposite to the sepals are all aborted, sixth stamen standing opposite to a petal being alone developed; and this stamen is not present in the ordinary flowers of these species; the style is aborted; and the ovaria are reduced from three to two.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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Again, in another work he says, the genera of the Connaraceæ differ in having one or more ovaria, in the existence or absence of albumen, in the imbricate or valvular æstivation.
XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Classification 1909
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