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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. · The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.
From New Latin ovarium, from Medieval Latin ovaria (“bird ovary”), from Latin ovum (“egg”). Doublet of ovarium.
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