OVARY
What does "OVARY" mean?
The reproductive organ that produces eggs in female animals.
Meanings
- In female animals, the organ that produces egg cells and reproductive hormones. Each ovary releases an egg in roughly monthly alternation.
- In a flowering plant, the enlarged base of the pistil that contains the ovules and becomes the fruit. After pollination, the flower's ovary swells into a ripe tomato. technical
Did you know?
- Every fleshy fruit you eat - tomato, peach, grape - is botanically a swollen ovary, the part of the flower that ripens around its seeds after pollination.
Word origin
From Latin 'ovarium', from 'ovum' meaning 'egg'; coined in the modern scientific sense to name the egg-producing organ.
Remember it
OVARY begins with 'OV-' like 'ovum' and 'oval' - all from the Latin for egg.
A little poem
The blossom lets go-
and where the petals once burned,
a heavy fruit hangs.
haiku
What it teaches
What looks like an ending is often the swelling of a beginning, seeds and all.
Quick facts
What does OVARY mean?
The reproductive organ that produces eggs in female animals.
Is OVARY a valid word?
Yes — OVARY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is OVARY?
OVARY has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does OVARY come from?
From Latin 'ovarium', from 'ovum' meaning 'egg'; coined in the modern scientific sense to name the egg-producing organ.
What can OVARY teach us?
What looks like an ending is often the swelling of a beginning, seeds and all.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.