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ovarioles

ovarioles is the plural of ovariole.

Meaning of ovariole

Noun

ovariole (plural ovarioles)

  1. a tubular component of the insect ovary, a basic unit of egg production
    • The oocytes develop in the ovarioles. The ovaries of Collembola are probably not homologous with those of insects, but are sac-like with a lateral germarium and no ovarioles.1998, Reginald Frederick Chapman, The Insects

Questions about ovarioles

What is ovarioles the plural of?
Ovarioles is the plural of ovariole.

Words near ovarioles in the dictionary

  1. ovariohysterectomies
  2. ovariohysterectomized
  3. ovariohysterectomy
  4. ovariolar
  5. ovariole
  6. ovarioles
  7. ovariopexies
  8. ovariopexy
  9. ovariosalpingectomies
  10. ovariosalpingectomy
  11. ovarioscopies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ovarioles (page history and authors); ovariole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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