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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fine rain was being whisked ova the town in little flurries like water from a sprinkler hose caught by the wind.
▪ In addition, stools were examined by microscopy for ova and parasites, including Cryptosporidium and Isopora.
▪ One of each of the 23 pairs has gone to one of the resulting sperm or ova and one to the other.
▪ This is the time at which hormonal changes halt the production of ova and end the menstrual cycle.
▪ You can verify that for yourself by running your fingertips ova a slightly rough surface and then stopping.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ova

Ovum \O"vum\ ([=o]"v[u^]m), n.; pl. L. Ova ([=o]"v[.a]), E. Ovums ([=o]"v[u^]mz). [L., an egg. See Oval.]

  1. (Biol.) A more or less spherical and transparent cell, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

    Note: The ovum is a typical cell, with a cell wall, cell substance, nucleus, and nucleolus. In man and the higher animals the cell wall, a vertically striated membrane, is called the zona pellucida; the cell contents, the vitellus; the nucleus, the germinal vesicle; and the nucleolus, the germinal spot. The diameter of the ripe ovum in man and the domestic animals varies between 1-200 and 1-120 of an inch.

  2. (Arch.) One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.
    --Gwilt.

Ova

Ova \O"va\, n. pl. See Ovum.

Wiktionary
ova

n. (qualifier: scientific term) (ovum English)

WordNet
ovum

  1. n. the female reproductive cell; the female gamete [syn: egg cell]

  2. [also: ova (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Ova

Ova or OVA may refer to:

  • Ovum, plural ova, the female sex cell or gamete
  • Ova, the eggs of helminths, a worm-like organism that can cause infections in humans and animals
  • Ovalbumin (OVA), a protein found in egg whites
  • Ova, Kaş, a village in the Antalya Province, Turkey
  • Ova, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States
  • Ova A. Kelley (1914–1944), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
  • OpenVera Assertion Language, a hardware verification Language
  • Original video animation, anime that are released directly to video
  • Ostrava, city in the Czech Republic
  • -ova, a feminine surname suffix in Slavic-language countries; see Eastern Slavic naming customs
  • Open Virtualization Archive, the single-file version of an Open Virtualization Format image
  • Open Virtualization Alliance consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies

Usage examples of "ova".

Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.

Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.

Whether a species of grass should be called Aegilops incurva, Aegilops incurvata, or Aegilops ovata may not be a matter that would stir many nonbotanists to passion, but it can be a source of very lively heat in the right quarters.

I regret to announce, after laying out his litterery bed, for two days she kept squealing down for noisy priors and bawling out to her jameymock farceson in Shemish like a mouther of the incas with a garcielasso huw Ananymus pinched her tights and about the Balt with the markshaire parawag and his loyal divorces, when he feraxiously shed ovas in Alemaney, tse tse, all the tell of the tud with the bourighevisien backclack, and him, the cribibber like an ambitrickster, aspiring like the decan's, fast aslooped in the intrance to his polthronechair with his sixth finger between his catseye and the index, making his pillgrimace of Childe Horrid .