The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word OVULE
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More clues leading to the result OVULE
- United in free love, this becomes seed
- United in love, besotted, finding need for reproduction
- Small part of what comes next said you fell in love head over heels
- Move mules — both stripped part of plant
- Egg starts to open, vacated usually leaving eggshell
- You reportedly admitted to perverted love for immature female part
- Religious festival’s talked-about egg
- Reportedly you love scrambled egg
- Eat less, leave out boiled egg
- Om vigorously undertakes long experiments initially to find a reproductive cell
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What does OVULE mean?
OVULE noun- The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
- An immature ovum in mammals.