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ovule

[ov-yool, oh-vyool] / ˈɒv yul, ˈoʊ vyul /




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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

When the pollen lands on a female scale, a pollen tube grows toward the female gametophyte, which consists of an ovule containing the megaspore.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The ovule wall will become part of the fruit.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Crotonopsis, in Euphorbiaceæ, 458 Styles 5; ovule and seed only one.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa




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