English dictionary: words starting with ovo

noun

Oocyte.

noun

Oogenesis.

adjective

= oogenetic .

noun

A globulin present in egg white.

adjective

(of a solid or a three-dimensional surface) more or less egg-shaped.

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Three flowerpots rest on an ovoid surface, perhaps a ceramic tray or table top whose legs have vani…

noun

An ovoid body or surface.

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And the ovoids, too small to hold the molecules needed to carry out the chemical reactions of life,…

adjective

Ovoid.

noun

An ovoid body or surface.

Usage examples:

And the ovoids, too small to hold the molecules needed to carry out the chemical reactions of life,…

adjective

(of a solid or a three-dimensional surface) more or less egg-shaped.

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Three flowerpots rest on an ovoid surface, perhaps a ceramic tray or table top whose legs have vani…

noun

A rounded convex moulding.

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The rebate would have been cut with a moving or standing fillister and the ovolo cut with a mouldin…

noun

A rounded convex moulding.

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The rebate would have been cut with a moving or standing fillister and the ovolo cut with a mouldin…

noun

The branch of biology that deals with the formation, structure, and development of ova.

noun

Originally: a water-soluble proteoglycan found in egg white (now usually more fully "ovomucoid α"). in later use also (more fully "ovomucoid β"): = ovomucin .

adjective

Relating to, involving, or utilizing the property of certain amorphous semiconductors of making a rapid, reversible transition from a non-conducting to a conducting state on the application of an electric field above a threshold value (the ovshinsky effect).

noun

The study and application of ovonic effects and devices; devices that employ ovonic effects.

noun

= ooplasm .

adjective

Of or relating to an ovotestis; combining features of an ovary and a testis.

noun

An organ producing both ova and spermatozoa, especially in some gastropod molluscs.

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Fish were scored as intersexes when at least one of the gonads was an ovotestis or when one ovary a…

noun

Vitellin.

adjective

(of an animal) producing young by means of eggs which are hatched within the body of the parent, as in some snakes.

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These animals are ovoviviparous (producing eggs that develop and hatch within the female's body wit…