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ovipositor

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Noun

HYPHEN

o=vi=pos=i=tor

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ovipositor has 1 sense

ovipositor(n = noun.animal) - egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes;

is a kind of

organ

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ovipositor, n. [L. ovum an egg + positor a placer, fr. ponere to place.].

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 larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

ovipositor, n. a pointed tubular organ with which a female insect deposits her eggs.

Etymology

mod.L f. OVI-(1) + L positor f. ponere posit- to place

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