Vocabulary : Oviparity to Ovist

Oviparity : Generation by means of ova. See Generation.
Oviparous : Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.
Oviposit : To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects. ;; To deposit or lay (an egg).
Oviposited : of Oviposit
Ovipositing : of Oviposit ;; Alt. of Oviposition

Oviposition : The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.
Ovipositor : The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.
Ovisac : A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova. ;; The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.
Ovism : The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoon; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.
Ovist : A believer in ovism. ;; Same as Ovulist.

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