ovulate

• IPA^(key): (verb) /ˈɒvjʊleɪt/

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• IPA^(key): (adjective) /ˈɒvjʊlət/

From ovul(e) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French ovuler.

ovulate (third-person singular simple present ovulates, present participle ovulating, simple past and past participle ovulated)

1. (intransitive) To produce eggs or ova.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 96:

     Other studies have shown that women living near the equator have a marked tendency to ovulate during the full moon.

From ovul(e) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

ovulate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Containing, or bearing, an ovule.
   • 1948, W. C. Cumming, Francis Irving Righter, Methods Used to Control Pollination of Pines in the Sierra Nevada of California, page 3:

     Ovulate flowers are usually isolated by enclosing them individually or in clusters in pollenproof bags […]

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ovulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “ovulate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• volutae

• IPA^(key): /o.vuˈla.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: o‧vu‧là‧te

ovulate

1. inflection of ovulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

ovulate

1. feminine plural of ovulato

• avutole, evoluta

ovulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of ovular combined with te