Usually means: Female reproductive cell; fertilization target.
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  1. ovum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ovum: Merriam-Webster
  3. ovum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ovum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ovum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ovum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ovum, ovum: Wordnik
  8. ovum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Ovum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. ovum: Wiktionary
  11. ovum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. ovum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. ovum: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. ovum: Dictionary.com
  15. ovum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Ovum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ovum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ovum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ovum: Rhymezone
  20. Ovum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ovum: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ovum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ovum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ovum-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ovum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. ovum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ovum: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Ovum: Anatomy of the Human Body
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Ovum: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  11. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  12. ovum: Medical dictionary
  13. Ovum: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ovum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Ovum: Biology dictionary
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
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  6. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  7. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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

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