ovule

1. 1.

   a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization

   Broaderreproductive structure

   Narroweramphitropous ovuleanatropous ovulecampylotropous ovuleorthotropous ovuleseed

   Partschalazanucellusmicropyle
2. 2.

   a small or immature ovum

   Broaderovum

Other forms of ovule

plural

ovules·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ovule

What does ovule mean?

ovule means "a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ovule?

ovule has 2 syllables: ovu-le. The stress falls on "ovu". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvjul/.

Is ovule a common word?

ovule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.