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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The thick, solid, transparent outer membrane of a developed mammalian ovum. Also called oolemma.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy A glycoprotein membrane surrounding the plasma membrane of an oocyte

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Biol.) The zona radiata.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus

Etymologies

  1. Latin zōna ("zone") + pellūcida ("transparent"). (Wiktionary)
  2. New Latin zōna pellūcida : Latin zōna, belt, girdle + Latin pellūcida, feminine of pellūcidus, transparent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. pellucid zone

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  1. zona
  1. zone

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  1. oolemma
  1. perivitelline
  1. vitelline membrane
  1. prochorion

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