ovular
Americanadjective
Usage
What does ovular mean? Ovular is an adjective meaning related to or like an ovule (an egg or seed). Ovular is often misused to describe objects in the shape of an oval (an egg shape). In botany (the study of plants), an ovule is a seed or the part of a plant that will become a seed. In biology, ovule refers to a small egg. Example: This chemical is known to interrupt the ovular processes of the flower.
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Etymology
Origin of ovular
From the New Latin word ōvulāris, dating back to 1850–55. See ovule, -ar 1
Example Sentences
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As a result of a time-consuming struggle that involved oils and a tortuous-looking pair of clamps, Derulo’s finger was freed of its ovular prison.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023
My back and legs and arms were joined into a wispy column, with the perfectly ovular hood of my parka rounding off the top.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017
Poincheval picked up his guitar and began strumming a few folk songs as I collapsed into an ovular wicker chair.
From The Verge • Feb. 13, 2015
The cell is ovular and surrounded by a light colored lacuna.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
From this occasional elongation of the nucleus, as well as from the foliar nature of the ovular coats, Prof. Alex.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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