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ta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropous. Gray.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oöspore. De Bary.

ril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.

The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.

physiological individual by the male products of another, -- as the fertilization of the ovules of one plant by pollen from another. See Fertilization. -- Cross file, a double convex file, used in dressing out the arms or crosses of fine wheells. -- Cross fire (Mil.), lines of fire, from two or more points or places…

practically dioecious, -- those on one plant producing no pollen, and those on another no ovules.

Embryonic sac or vesicle (Bot.), the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac.

The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

g animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fert…

An ovule.

One of a class of plants, so called by Lindley, because the ovules are fertilized by direct contact of the pollen. Same as Gymnosperm.

rminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule. Gray.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.