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語源 1

From ovul(e) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French ovuler.

動詞

ovulate (third-person singular simple present ovulates, present participle ovulating, simple past and past participle ovulated)

1. (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.

派生語

語源 2

From ovul(e) +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

形容詞

ovulate (not comparable)

1. (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 […]

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ovulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ovulate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• volutae