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An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule. -- Mi*crop"y*lar, a.

The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.

An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle. Goodale.

A fertilized oösphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

Direct fertilization in plants, as when the pollen fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous.

Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

Pertaining to ovules.

Containing an ovule or ovules.

Producing ovules.

An ovule.

Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.…

The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

The stalk of a seed or ovule.

it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.

The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.

A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.