The word "ova" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a term that refers to the female reproductive cells (eggs) in some species, and can be used in any context where this meaning is relevant. Example sentence: The female salmon released hundreds of ova into the stream to ensure the species' reproductive success.
Its outer layer is parchmentlike, which is characteristic of the ova of modern egg-burying reptiles such as turtles.
All female sex cells (the ova) carry only one X; spermatozoa carry either an X or a Y.
Unlike men, who produce new sperm continually, women are born with all the eggs (ova) they will ever have.
Some scorpions have ova with various amounts of yolk (apoikogenic), whereas others have smaller, yolkless ova (katoikogenic).
The source of the ova (the female germ cells) is the female ovary; that of spermatozoa (the male germ cells) is the testis.
Fertilized ova are passed in feces and are ingested by an intermediary host animal, such as a cow.
In any one human generation, the egg's development starts before the female that carries it is even born; 8 to 20 weeks after the fetus has started to grow, cells that are to become mature ova have been multiplying, and by the time that the female is born, all of the egg cells that the ovaries will release during the active reproductive years of the female are already present in the ovaries.
These cells, known as the primary ova, number around 400,000.
Prior to ovulation the endometrium (uterine lining) thickens, in preparation for holding the fertilized ova.
In sexual colonies, developing ova or spermatozoa replace gonidia, and fertilization results in zygotes that form a cyst and are released from the parent colony after its death.
Ovary, in zoology, female reproductive organ in which sex cells (eggs, or ova) are produced.
