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oviparous, a. Zool.|əʊˈvɪpərəs|
[f. L. ovipar-us egg-laying (f. ovi-1 + -parus producing, laying, f. parĕre to bring forth) + -ous. Cf. F. ovipare (1712 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Producing ova or eggs; applied to animals that produce young by means of eggs which are ‘laid’ or expelled from the body of the parent and subsequently hatched. (Opp. to viviparous; see also ovo-viviparous.)
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 297 In creatures oviparous, as birds and fishes. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 187 All sorts of creatures, whether oviparous or viviparous. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 217 The alligator is an oviparous animal... They lay from one to two hundred eggs in a nest. 1858Lewes Sea-side Stud. 285 The Aphis produces each year ten larviparous broods, and one which is oviparous.
Hence oˈviparously adv., oˈviparousness.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 3 In the warmer summer months the young [of the daphnia pulex] are produced viviparously, and in the cooler autumnal months oviparously. 1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Oviparousness. |