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Oviparous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Producing eggs that hatch outside the body.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Producing young from eggs; ; -- opposed to viviparous.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Laying eggs to be hatched, or producing ova to be matured, outside the body of the parent; pertaining to the Ovipara: distinguished from ovoviviparous and from viviparous.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. egg-laying

Word Usage

"The first platypus specimen, only a skin, reached England in 1799 and it wasn’t until 1884 when it was definitely established that platypuses were oviparous, that is, they laid eggs like reptiles and birds, but unlike the majority of mammals."

Equivalent

broody

Antonym

viviparous

Cross Reference

viviparous

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

ovoviviparous viviparous

Same Context

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