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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From New Latin ovarium, from Latin ovum (“egg”).
Noun
òvārīj m (Cyrillic spelling о̀ва̄рӣј)
- (anatomy) ovary
- 2002, Ivo Matoničkin and Radovan Erber, Opća zoologija, (Školska knjiga, Zagreb), p. 272:
U životinja koje su genetički determinirane kao ženke razvoj se androgene žlijezde prekida, a razvija se ovarij koji pak hormonalnom ženskom diferencijacijom utječe na određivanje sekundarnih spolnih značajki.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: jȃjnīk
Declension
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