Difference Wiki

Ovary vs. Ovum

Ovary and Ovum Definitions

Ovary

One of the paired female reproductive organs that produce eggs and female sex hormones in humans and other vertebrates.

Ovum

The mature female gamete of an animal; an egg.

Ovary

An analogous gland in an invertebrate animal, such as a flatworm or a mollusk.

Ovum

(cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

Ovary

(Botany) The ovule-bearing lower part of a pistil that ripens into a fruit.

Ovum

A more or less spherical and transparent cell, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.
ADVERTISEMENT

Ovary

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
The male testicles are homologous to the female ovaries.

Ovum

One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.

Ovary

(botany) The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.

Ovum

The female reproductive cell; the female gamete

Ovary

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

Ovary

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

Ovary

The organ that bears the ovules of a flower

Ovary

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

Trending Comparisons

New Comparisons