Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ovular

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: ovu-lar
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to an ovule.

adj

noun

A seminar for feminists.

Example Sentences

"There were lights across the street and an ovular pool of light from Noah’s window on the grass between her and the back fence."
"Trebilco considers 'seminar' offensively 'masculinist', so she has replaced it with ovular, which she regards as its feminist equivalent."

Etymology

From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ovule

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Biology.

Inflected Forms

more ovular (comparative) most ovular (superlative) ovulars (plural)

Derived Forms

anovular biovular diovular extraovular monovular periovular polyovular uniovular

Frequently Paired Words

ovulary

Questions

What does ovular mean?: Of or pertaining to an ovule.
Where does ovular come from?: From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.

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