Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin plural of ovum ("egg"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the eggs, or ova -- which is the Latin word meaning eggs -- do not begin to ripen until the girl reaches the age of thirteen or fourteen, or, in other words, until she begins to become a woman.”
“Yes, Read or Die the ova is a big one of mine, I always Identified with The Paper, becuase she is so obsessed with books and so am I.”
A sum up of medical stuff, but Yuri, postcards and ANIME GIRLS!
“The number of the ova is the same in all sea-urchins, and is an odd one.”
“It is not, however, in every kind that the so-called ova are edible.”
“If," says Keller, (an old German writer,) "the fly be enabled to choose the place which suits her best for the deposition of her eggs, (as, for instance, in my sugar-basin, in which I placed a quantity of decaying wheat,) she takes a correct survey of every part and selects that in which she believes her ova will be the best preserved and her young ones well cared for.”
“Society on a small discovery which he had made by the aid of a "wretched microscope" to the effect that the so-called ova of Flustra were really larvæ and had the power of independent action by means of cilia.”
“This was in a large measure due to his intimacy with Dr. Grant, who, in a later article on Flustra, made some allusion to a paper read by Darwin before the Linnean Society on a small discovery which he had made by the aid of a “wretched microscope” to the effect that the so-called ova of Flustra were really larvae and had the power of independent action by means of cilia.”
“This was that the so-called ova of Flustra had the power of independent movement by means of cilia, and were in fact larvae.”
“It produces the female egg cells necessary for reproduction, called the ova or oocytes.”
“It produces the female egg cells necessary for reproduction, called the ova or oocytes?.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ova’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
( Reggae, Rastafari, Rasta, Jamaica, Zion, Haile Selassie, Africa, Caribbean )
( slang, randomness )Rastafari, puff, Jah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Jamaica, Kingston, Caribbean, Dominican, Zion, Africa, cannabis and 81 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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kimo2000's Words
pakalolo, miliated, voodoo, vindaloo, hacienda, acquiesce, addlepated, olio, akimbo, apropos, oogenesis, arugula and 181 more...
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E pluribus
Interesting Plurals
cherubim, seraphim, culs-de-sac, adjutants-general, aides-de-camp, passersby, courts-martial, commanders-in-chief, fleurs-de-lis, knickerbockers glory, heirs apparent, billets doux and 97 more...
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drspork's Words
solecism, dithyrambic, monomaniac, tautology, perspicacious, novena, chthonian, miasma, provender, carom, fuliginous, protoplasm and 102 more...
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anaisabbzug's list
my first list...
i shall break it out into various categories at a later date...syzygy, flouncy, irregardless, lascivious, rutting, incorrigible, ennui, ineffably, unflagging, scarlet, missive, vernacular and 48 more...
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three letter wonders
words with three letters that I like
Tweets
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