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adjective Zoology.
producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
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Oviparous
is always a great word to know.
So is fish. Does it mean:
| cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates with gills, often have fins and elongated body covered with scales |
| warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, scaly legs and beak which bear young in shelled eggs |
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World English Dictionary
| oviparous (əʊˈvɪpərəs) | |
| —adj | |
| ovoviviparous Compare viviparous (of fishes, reptiles, birds, etc) producing eggs that hatch outside the body of the mother | |
| oviparity | |
| —n | |
| o'viparously | |
| —adv | |
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Science Dictionary
oviparous  (ō-vĭp'ər-əs) Pronunciation Key
Producing eggs that hatch outside the body. Amphibians, birds, and most insects, fish, and reptiles are oviparous. Compare ovoviviparous, viviparous. |
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