Fromovule +‎-ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite toseminar because of that term's etymological link withsemen, the male sexual fluid.

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ovular (comparativemoreovular,superlativemostovular)

1. Of or pertaining to anovule.
2. (rare)Oval.
   • 2023,Brandon Taylor,The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page244:

     There were lights across the street and anovular pool of light from Noah’s window on the grass between her and the back fence.

ovular (pluralovulars)

1. (feminism, rare) Aseminar forfeminists.
   • 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers,Who Stole Feminism?:

     Trebilco considers 'seminar' offensively 'masculinist', so she has replaced it withovular, which she regards as its feminist equivalent.^[1]

• ovulary

• louvar,valour

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ovular m orf (masculine and feminine pluralovulars)

1. oval;ovular

ovular (first-person singular presentovulo,first-person singular preteriteovulí,past participleovulat)

1. Toovulate

ovular m orf (pluralovulares)

1. oval(of or relating to an ovum)

ovular (first-person singular presentovulo,first-person singular preteriteovulei,past participleovulado)

1. toovulate(to produce eggs or ova)

• óvulo

• “ovular”, inDicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ovular”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed fromFrenchovulaire.

ovular m orn (feminine singularovulară,masculine pluralovulari,feminine/neuter pluralovulare)

1. ovular

• IPA^(key): /obuˈlaɾ/[o.β̞uˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes:-aɾ
• Syllabification:o‧vu‧lar

ovular (first-person singular presentovulo,first-person singular preteriteovulé,past participleovulado)

1. toovulate

• “ovular”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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