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Webster 1913 Edition
Oviparous
O-vip′a-rous
,Adj.
[L.
oviparus
; ovum
egg + parere
to bring forth: cf. F. ovipare
.] (Physiol.)
Producing young from eggs;
as, an
; – opposed to oviparous
animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusionviviparous
. Webster 1828 Edition
Oviparous
OVIP'AROUS
,Adj.
Producing eggs, or producing young from eggs. Fowls and reptiles are oviparous animals.
Definition 2024
oviparous
oviparous
English
Adjective
oviparous (not comparable)
- Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
- The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
- 1643: Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
- And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.
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Translations
egg laying