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See Ovum.

Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. [Obs.]

The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin.

horter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

In an oval form.

Exultant. [Obs.] Holland.

Of or pertaining to an ovary.

One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

One who performs, or is skilled in, ovariotomy.

The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food. [R.] Thomson.

Inflammation of the ovaries.

An ovary. See Ovary.

The essential female reproductive organ in which the ova are produced. See Illust. of Discophora.

Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.

Having an ovate form, but narrowed at the end into a slender point.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and lanceolate.

Oblong. with one end narrower than the other; ovato-oblong.

Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.