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A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | | © A Dictionary of Zoology 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

ovum (pl. ova) An unfertilized egg cell. In animals it is often the product of the division of a secondary oocyte. Fertilized by the sperm, an ovum develops as an embryo.

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