Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of egg, ey, huevo, and oeuf.
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