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ovipositor
n.
tube-like organ for laying eggs (in many female insects); egg-laying organ in some fishes and other animals (Zoology)
Ovipositor
The
ovipositor is an
organ used by some
animals for the laying of
eggs. In insects an ovipositor consists of a maximum of three pairs of appendages. The details and morphology of the ovipositor vary, but typically its form it is adapted to functions such as transmitting the egg, preparing a place for it, and placing it properly. In some
insects the organ is used merely to attach the egg to some surface, but in many
parasitic species (primarily in
wasps and other
Hymenoptera) it is a piercing organ as well.
ovipositor
Noun
1. egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
(hypernym) organ
ovipositor (m)
n.
ovipositor, tube-like organ for laying eggs (in many female insects)
Ovipositor
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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