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34 lines
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{
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"ovum":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": a female gamete : macrogamete":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8\u014d-v\u0259m"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"The menstrual cycle is usually 28 days and is divided in half by ovulation on day 14, as the ovum is released from the ovary. \u2014 Jason Karp, Outside Online , 14 Mar. 2014",
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"Afterward, odds are fair that an ovum of the bottom lizard will set out on its parthenogenic way. \u2014 Rebecca Coffey, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021",
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"The right chemical stimulus can cause a mammalian ovum in a lab, even a human one, to start dividing and producing an embryo without sperm. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 18 June 2020",
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"Each ovum has its own characteristics and personality, but the woman is young, not necessarily in a forever-relationship and just not ready for a baby of her own. \u2014 Christine Dolen, sun-sentinel.com , 15 July 2019",
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"Pregnancy occurs when a sperm cell fertilizes an ovum that has been released into the Fallopian tubes after ovulation. \u2014 Shan Boodram, Teen Vogue , 19 July 2018",
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"This is the part of the sperm that produces an enzyme that breaks down the outer edge of the ovum , enabling pregnancy. \u2014 Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics , 16 July 2018",
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"In more 80 percent of the 41 fertilized ovums tested, the growing and dividing cells failed to form a hollow sphere of about 200 cells, called a blastocyst. \u2014 Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian , 21 Sep. 2017",
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"If there exists a Platonic ideal of a bird egg, an ovum shaped most like all the others, it is not laid by a chicken but by a small warbler called the graceful prinia. \u2014 Ben Guarino, sacbee.com , 22 June 2017"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"New Latin, from Latin, egg \u2014 more at egg entry 1":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1672, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-001445"
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}
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} |