ovary
pronunciation
How to pronounce ovary in British English:
UK [ˈəʊvəri]
How to pronounce ovary in American English:
US [ˈoʊvəri]
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- Noun:
- the organ that bears the ovules of a flower
- (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone
Word Origin
- ovary
- ovary: [17] Latin ōvum ‘egg’ came from the same Indo-European base (*ōwo-) as produced English egg. From it were derived the medieval Latin adjective ōvāl is ‘egg-shaped’ (source of English oval [16]) and the modern Latin noun ōvārium (whence English ovary). Also from ōvum come English ovate [18] and ovulate [19], and the Latin noun itself was adopted as a technical term in biology in the early 18th century.=> egg
- ovary (n.)
- 1650s, from Modern Latin ovarium "ovary" (16c.), from Medieval Latin ovaria "the ovary of a bird" (13c.), from Latin ovum "egg," from PIE *owyo-/*oyyo- "egg" (see egg (n.)). In classical Latin, ovarius meant "egg-keeper."
Example
- 1. They placed some of the cells into human ovary tissue .
- 2. You may also be interested to know that technically , a tomato is an ovary .
- 3. Breeding from these cells should be comparatively easy . But finding and removing ovary stem cells is not .
- 4. Researchers have found that they can change ovary cells into testicular cells in mice by turning off a single gene .
- 5. These are released from the ovary cyclically , usually one every month after puberty , until menopause .