Ovary vs. Ovum

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

The mature female gamete of an animal; an egg.

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

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

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

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.

(anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

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

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

The female reproductive cell; the female gamete

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

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

The organ that bears the ovules of a flower

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