FERTILIZED OVUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fertilized ovum mean? 

• FERTILIZED OVUM (noun)
  The noun FERTILIZED OVUM has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)

  Familiarity information: FERTILIZED OVUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERTILIZED OVUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

fertilized ovum; zygote

Hypernyms ("fertilized ovum" is a kind of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Domain category:

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fertilized ovum"):

heterozygote ((genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring)

homozygote ((genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic)

 Context examples 

The undifferentiated cells formed by cleavage of the fertilized ovum.

(Blastomere, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A cell formed in the first stages of embryonic development, after the splitting of the fertilized ovum, but before the formation of the blastula or blastocyst.

(Embryonic Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

The fertilized ovum.

(Murine Zygote, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)