GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A vascular body in a mammalian ovary enclosing a developing egg

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("Graafian follicle" is a kind of...):

follicle (any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity)

Meronyms (parts of "Graafian follicle"):

corpus luteum (yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle following the release of an ovum; it degenerates after a few days unless pregnancy has begun)

Holonyms ("Graafian follicle" is a part of...):

ovary ((vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone)

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