The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OVARY
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More clues leading to the result OVARY
- No change in gland
- Organ and piano ultimately are not the same
- Initially observe change in gland
- Flaubert’s Emma goes topless for female part
- Madame loses her head for egg producer
- Head of ordering to change supplier of eggs
- Literary heroine book cast in vital female part
- Row about very variable organ
- Males don’t have it? Nothing to disagree
- After goose egg, change egg source
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What does OVARY mean?
OVARY noun- A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
- The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.