单词 | ovisac |
释义 | ovisacn. Chiefly Zoology. A sac containing an ovum or a number of ova. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sac containing ova ovisac1834 ovicapsule1853 1834 R. Owen in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 124 557 I subsequently found three ovisacs developed in the ovary to a similar but not greater extent. 1872 E. R. Peaslee Ovarian Tumors 7 Each mature ovisac contains a mature ovum. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 271 The eggs are carried about in the ovisacs until they are hatched. 1925 Sci. Monthly Apr. 408 The white ovisac becomes greatly lengthened. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xiii. 427 In..the more primitive bony fishes and amphibians,..there is generally an expanded distal part of each tube, an ovisac, that serves for the storage of eggs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834 |
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