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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An original or primitive egg; an ovum or ovule in its first state, as when still in its Graafian follicle, or, in general, before its impregnation, when it becomes a cytula or parent-cell by fecundation with sperm; or, in the case of meroblastic eggs, an undifferentiated female egg-cell before it acquires the mass of nonformative food-yolk which converts it into a metovum.
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(protovum) is covered with a continuous layer of small cells.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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