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ovipositor |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ovipositor \O`vi*pos"i*tor\, n. [L. ovum an egg + positor a placer, fr ponere to place.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 larv[ae] of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ovipositor n : egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
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