Human ovum is barely visible to the naked eye.
Source: tatoeba (1020598)
Ovum
//ˈoʊ.vəm//
Synonyms for "ovum" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
10 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
105 translations across 76 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- ovum noun (gamete)
- vezë noun (gamete)
Arabic
3 entries- بويضة noun (gamete)
- بُوَيْضَة noun (gamete)
- بُيَيْضَة noun (gamete)
Armenian
1 entries- ձվաբջիջ noun (gamete)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܒܹܥܬܵܐ noun (gamete)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- yumurta noun (gamete)
Basque
1 entries- obulu noun (gamete)
Belarusian
1 entries- яйцакле́тка noun (gamete)
Bengali
1 entries- ডিম্বাণু noun (gamete)
Bulgarian
1 entries- яйцекле́тка noun (gamete)
Burmese
1 entries- သားဥ noun (gamete)
Catalan
1 entries- òvul noun (gamete)
Chinese
1 entries- 卵 noun (gamete)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 卵 noun (gamete)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 卵 noun (gamete)
- 卵子 noun (gamete)
Cornish
1 entries- oy noun (gamete)
Czech
1 entries- vajíčko noun (gamete)
Danish
2 entries- æg noun (gamete)
- ægcelle noun (gamete)
Dutch
1 entries- eicel noun (gamete)
Estonian
1 entries- munarakk noun (gamete)
Faroese
1 entries- egg noun (gamete)
Finnish
1 entries- munasolu noun (gamete)
French
1 entries- ovule noun (gamete)
Georgian
1 entries- კვერცხუჯრედი noun (gamete)
German
2 entries- Eizelle noun (gamete)
- Ovum noun (gamete)
Greek
2 entries- αβγό noun (gamete)
- ωάριο noun (gamete)
Greenlandic
1 entries- mannik noun (gamete)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 卵 noun (gamete)
Hawaiian
1 entries- hua noun (gamete)
Hebrew
1 entries- בֵּיצִית noun (gamete)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- itlog noun (gamete)
Hindi
1 entries- डिम्ब noun (gamete)
Hungarian
2 entries- pete noun (gamete)
- petesejt noun (gamete)
Icelandic
2 entries- egg noun (gamete)
- eggfruma noun (gamete)
Ido
1 entries- ovo noun (gamete)
Indonesian
1 entries- ovum noun (gamete)
Irish
2 entries- ubh noun (gamete)
- ubhán noun (gamete)
Italian
1 entries- ovulo noun (gamete)
Japanese
2 entries- 卵 noun (gamete)
- 卵子 noun (gamete)
Kaurna
1 entries- muka noun (gamete)
Kazakh
2 entries- аналық жасуша noun (gamete)
- ұрық жасуша noun (gamete)
Khmer
1 entries- ស៊ុត noun (gamete)
Korean
2 entries- 난자 noun (gamete)
- 란자 noun (gamete)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- урук клеткасы noun (gamete)
- энелик клетка noun (gamete)
Latin
1 entries- ovum noun (gamete)
Latvian
1 entries- olšūna noun (gamete)
Lithuanian
2 entries- kiaušialąstė noun (gamete)
- kiaušinėlis noun (gamete)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Eezell noun (gamete)
Macedonian
1 entries- јајце клетка noun (gamete)
Malay
2 entries- ovum noun (gamete)
- اوۏوم noun (gamete)
Malayalam
1 entries- അണ്ഡം noun (gamete)
Marathi
2 entries- अंड noun (gamete)
- अंडकोश noun (gamete)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- hêkexane noun (gamete)
- xaneya hêkê noun (gamete)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- egg noun (gamete)
- eggcelle noun (gamete)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- egg noun (gamete)
Persian
1 entries- تخمک noun (gamete)
Polish
3 entries- jajeczko noun (gamete)
- jajo noun (gamete)
- komórka jajowa noun (gamete)
Portuguese
1 entries- óvulo noun (gamete)
Romanian
1 entries- ovul noun (gamete)
Russian
1 entries- яйцекле́тка noun (gamete)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ugh noun (gamete)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- jajašce noun (gamete)
- jajna ćelija noun (gamete)
- јајашце noun (gamete)
Slovak
2 entries- vajcová bunka noun (gamete)
- vajíčko noun (gamete)
Slovene
1 entries- jajčece noun (gamete)
Spanish
1 entries- óvulo noun (gamete)
Swahili
1 entries- yai noun (gamete)
Swedish
2 entries- ägg noun (gamete)
- äggcell noun (gamete)
Tagalog
1 entries- itlog noun (gamete)
Tajik
1 entries- тухмҳуҷайра noun (gamete)
Tamil
1 entries- முட்டை noun (gamete)
Thai
1 entries- เซลล์ไข่ noun (gamete)
Turkish
3 entries- ovum noun (gamete)
- yumurta noun (gamete)
- yumurta hücresi noun (gamete)
Ukrainian
1 entries- яйцекліти́на noun (gamete)
Uzbek
2 entries- tuxum noun (gamete)
- tuxumhujayra noun (gamete)
Vietnamese
2 entries- noãn noun (gamete)
- trứng noun (gamete)
West-Frisian
1 entries- aai noun (gamete)
Zazaki
1 entries- akk noun (gamete)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Pregnancy only happens if the ovum is fertilized.
Source: tatoeba (1395479)
In short it was only after many failures, and after many barren epochs during which, for a variety of reasons, the enterprise was neglected, that the Fourth Men did at length fashion two individuals almost precisely of the type they had originally designed. These were produced from a single fertilized ovum, in laboratory conditions. Identical twins, but of opposite sexes, they became the Adam and Eve of a new and glorious human species, the Fifth Men.
Source: tatoeba (10606594)
The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that, finally, at the pubescent period, they ripen and liberate an ovum, or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity through the Fallopian tubes.
Source: tatoeba (11641397)
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