ovulate
Speech parts
1. ovulate - Adjective
2. ovulate - Verb
Meaning
Containing an ovule or ovules.
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women ovulate about once every month
After their offspring are weaned, females begin to ovulate and soon become pregnant again.
Dysfunctional uterine bleeding typically occurs in premenopausal women who do not ovulate normally (i.e. are anovulatory ).
Females can ovulate up to three times in a 21-day period, and copulation can take five days; one instance of a couple being in the mating den for eight days has been recorded.
A female mouse's ovaries were removed and replaced with 3D printed bioprosthetic ones using gelatin as the "ink" and using eggs from different mice — enabling it to ovulate, conceive pups and give birth, the United States researchers said.
Wildebeest females breed seasonally and ovulate spontaneously. citation The estrous cycle is about 23 days and the gestation period lasts 250 to 260 days.