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ovum

noun as in female reproductive cell

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The ovum of Amphioxus contains very little food material and its segmentation is quite uniform.

A section of the embryo, as we may now call the ovum, is represented in Plate 5, fig.

The bulk of the ovum is composed of yolk spherules, imbedded in a protoplasmic matrix.

It contains in fact a larger bulk of active protoplasm, as compared with yolk-granules, than does the remainder of the ovum.

The outer of the three is composed of the largest-sized yolk-spherules which constitute the greater part of the ovum.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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