Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing ova only: applied to the ovaries of some insects, as distinguished from those which are meroistic, or produce vitelligenous cells are well as ova.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Producing
ova only; said of theovaries of certaininsects which do not producevitelligenous cells .
Etymologies
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pan- + Ancient Greek an egg.
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