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Ovary

noun

(pl. ovaries)

The organ that bears the ovules of a flower.

(vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone.

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"Ovary" Quotes from Famous Books

... bodies are solid, but contain a great number of diminutive vesicles, which, by some mysterious law of nature, mature one at a time, every thirty days, for thirty years of woman's life. When mature, the vesicle separates from the ovary, traverses the tube into the womb, and is thence expelled and lost, or becomes, by contact with the other sex, the germ of a living being. This process is accompanied by a disturbance of the whole system. Wandering pains are felt; ...

— The Physical Life of Woman: - Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother • Dr. George H Napheys

... worms have the organs of each sex equally developed; therefore, in the use of the word hermaphrodite, I use it in its broadest sense. I simply mean that they are autogenetic. In the rhabdocoela the sexual organs appear in their simplest forms—a testis anterior to a single or double ovary. Other gliding worms have a more complex arrangement of the sexual organs, but most of them are true hermaphrodites. Next in the chain of evolutionary development, and one step nearer man, we find the soft worms (scolecidae); ...

— Religion and Lust - or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire • James Weir

Words linked to "Ovary" : Graafian follicle, vertebrate, gonad, blossom, placenta, flower, reproductive structure, arteria ovarica, ovarian, craniate, ovarian artery, female reproductive system, female internal reproductive organ, sex gland, bloom