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Ovipositor

Ovipositor Meaning & Definition
Ovipositor Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ovipositor?

[n] egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes

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Ovipositor In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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