Ovum

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.

II. Ovum ·noun A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. ·see ·Illust. of Mycropyle.

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ovum
ōvum, i, n. [ὠόν, i. e. ΩϝΟΝ]. I Lit., an egg : ovum parere, to lay , Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 18, 5...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
ovum
ōvum ī, n 3 AV-, an egg : ovum parere, to lay : ponere, O.: pullos ex ovis excuderunt, hatched :...

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