ovule

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The tube extends through the style and into the ovary, allowing sperm cells to reach the egg and central cells in an ovule for fertilization.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

In addition to the 45-minute blocking process that prevents multiple sperm from fertilizing the same ovule, a repulsion signal also directs rejected suitors towards other unpaired ovules.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

Part B shows a blowup of the megasprophyll, which has an oval ovule at its base.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

When a pollen grain reaches the stigma, a pollen tube extends from the grain, grows down the style, and enters through the micropyle: an opening in the integuments of the ovule.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Nucellus, nū-sel′us, n. the nucleus of the ovule.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various