Definition of "ovulates" [ovulates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ovulate. (verb)

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• "When she ovulates, her oestrogen is "spiked with the lush brandy of luteinizing hormone", and in spite of her thanking 23 people for their professional editorial assistance with her book, none of them suggested she do anything about the sentence: "Whenever we were in the back yard, Karen would sometimes jump into the hammock with us . . .""
• "Occasionally, a woman ovulates more than one egg, and a separate sperm fertilizes each one, resulting in fraternal non-identical twins, triplets, quadruplets, or higher-order multiples."
• "If life begins at conception, then a woman is committing murder every time she ovulates and a man is commuting millions of murders with each ejaculation."