ovulate
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ovulate (third-person singular simple present ovulates, present participle ovulating, simple past and past participle ovulated)
- (intransitive) To produce eggs or ova.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 96:
- Other studies have shown that women living near the equator have a marked tendency to ovulate during the full moon.
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produce eggs or ova
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ovulate (not comparable)
- (botany) Containing, or bearing, an ovule.
- 1948, W. C. Cumming, Francis Irving Righter, Methods Used to Control Pollination of Pines in the Sierra Nevada of California, page 3:
- Ovulate flowers are usually isolated by enclosing them individually or in clusters in pollenproof bags […]
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- “ovulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “ovulate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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ovulate
- inflection of ovulare:
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ovulate f pl
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ovulate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of ovular combined with te