Definition for O'VULE, or O'VU-LUM

O'VULE, or O'VU-LUM, [from L. ovum.]

In botany, a body borne by the placenta of a plant, and destined to become a seed. It is enclosed or naked. It is composed of two sacs, one within another, which are called primine and secundine, and of a nucleus within the sacs. Lindley.

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