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oviparous
[ oh-vip-er-uhs ]
adjective
, Zoology.
- producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
oviparous
/ ˌəʊvɪˈpærɪtɪ; əʊˈvɪpərəs /
adjective
- (of fishes, reptiles, birds, etc) producing eggs that hatch outside the body of the mother Compare ovoviviparous viviparous
oviparous
/ ō-vĭp′ər-əs /
- Producing eggs that hatch outside the body. Amphibians, birds, and most insects, fish, and reptiles are oviparous.
- Compare ovoviviparous
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Derived Forms
- oˈviparously, adverb
- oviparity, noun
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Other Words From
- o·vi·par·i·ty [oh-v, uh, -, par, -i-tee], o·vipa·rous·ness noun
- o·vipa·rous·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of oviparous1
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Example Sentences
It is an oviparous animal, and its eggs scarcely exceed in size those of a goose.
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The same kind of animal is then at one time of the year viviparous, and at another oviparous.
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His purpose was the study of the wonderful Australian fauna, the oviparous mammals, marsupials, and ceratodus (lungfish).
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Their nervous system also is not materially different, and they are both oviparous.
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By far the larger portion of insects is oviparous in the ordinary acceptation of the term.
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