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That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. [R.] Holder.

The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

o, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the

e pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.

(Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. -- Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

ual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. Drayton.

The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.

masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.

The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow.

A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.

A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. Lindley.