Word Meanings - UNIOVULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing but one ovule.

CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
CONTAINANT
A container.
CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains.
CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
OVULE
The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the
SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.