Clues for the word "OVUM"
We've had 109 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 368 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on November 12, 2025.
Definition of ovum
- n. - A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.
- n. - One of the series of egg-shaped ornaments into which the ovolo is often carved.
Referring Clues
- Start of something big?
- What a follicle holds
- One in the sac
- Breakfast item in old Rome?
- Egg
- It may go down a tube
- Egg cell
- Reproductive seed
- Certain gamete
- Egg, biologically
- Latin egg
- Eventual avis
- Egg, classically
- Female gamete
- Reproductive cell
- Baby-to-be, maybe
- Traveler down a fallopian tube
- Fallopian tube traveler
- Being-to-be
- Meiosis product
- It can be fertilized
- Mature germ cell
- Future avis
- Potential progeny
- Fertilization target
- Avis, formerly?
- Egg: Lat.
- Haploid cell
- Oogenesis product
- The female gamete
- Egg, to a biologist
- Female egg
- Cell in a fallopian tube
- Egg without a shell
- It may become fertilized
- Gamete
- An egg in Caesar's salad
- Egg, to Ovid
- Cell with 23 chromosomes
- Female germ cell
- Part of a preconception?
- One of 40-Across
- Fertility clinic cell
- Fertility clinic item
- Female egg cell
- Nero's egg
- Ooplasm locale
- Egg, in ancient Rome
- 54-Down, to a biologist
- See 4-Down
- Macrogamete
- See 31-Down
- Latin 6-Down
- See 6-Down
- Egg, in a lab
- Egg, formally
- Caesar's egg
- An egg, to Caesar
- It grows when fertilized
- Sperm's destination
- Unfertilized egg
- Egg, to Cato
- Embryo, once
- Fertility doctor's focus
- Bank asset that's frozen?
- Half of a zygote
- Cell with potential
- It may get fertilized
- It goes down a fallopian tube
- Sex-ed subject
- Zygote half
- Egg as a germ cell
- Egg of old Rome
- Breakfast for Caesar?
- Breakfast for Ceasar?
- Possible future embryo
- Egg, in Latin
- Egg, in biology class
- Egg emu voted to gobble up
- Mother's basic contribution, boundless love? I'm not sure
- Human egg cell
- Egg - egg cell
- Human egg
- Egg very round? On the contrary, I'm not sure
- Potential embryo
- Elliptical ornament, in architecture
- Fertility clinic specimen
- Fertility clinic egg
- Egg eaten in a toga?
- Old Roman egg
- Latin for 129 Across
- Tube traveler
- Cell with ooplasm
- Egg of ancient Rome
- Egg, all fancy
- Anatomical egg
- One 33-Across
- Embryo-to-be
- Largest cell in the human body
- Future embryo
- Female reproductive cell; egg
- Tube traveler?
- IVF cell
- Cell with 23 unpaired DNA strands
- Egg to be fertilized
- Thing moving through a tube, maybe
- It has human potential
- Egg in a fallopian tube
- Tube descender
Last Seen In
- New York Times - November 12, 2025
- Daily American - September 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 26, 2025
- LA Times - August 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 06, 2025
- New York Times - July 02, 2025
- LA Times - June 26, 2025
- LA Times - June 12, 2025
- Daily American - May 16, 2025
- LA Times - March 03, 2025
- Daily American - February 27, 2025
- LA Times - February 25, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 25, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 31, 2024
- Your Life Choices - December 30, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 30, 2024
- New York Times - December 20, 2024
- Daily American - October 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 07, 2024
- Daily American - September 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - August 29, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - August 20, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - July 15, 2024
- Family Time - July 07, 2024
- Daily American - June 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 05, 2024
- Daily American - May 22, 2024
- Family Time - May 20, 2024
- Daily American - April 26, 2024
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