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Oviparous   Listen
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Oviparous  adj.  (Physiol.) Producing young from eggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; opposed to viviparous.






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"Oviparous" Quotes from Famous Books



... he passes on to describe the organs of animals. The animals are dealt with in groups—viviparous and oviparous quadrupeds, fish, serpents, birds, etc. The ape, elephant, chameleon, and some others ...
— Fathers of Biology • Charles McRae

... ears: "Easy on the sex line, boy. That's always touchy. These creatures are oviparous. Sex glands are apparently hidden in that long fur behind where their ...
— Missing Link • Frank Patrick Herbert

... cause (Avyakta Prakriti), the creator, the eternal, and beyond the ken of all creatures. Therefore doth he of unfading glory deserve highest worship. The intellect, the seat of sensibility, the five elements, air, heat, water, ether, earth, and the four species of beings (oviparous, viviparous, born of filthy damp and vegetal) are all established in Krishna. The sun, the moon, the constellations, the planets, all the principal directions, the intermediate directions, are all established in Krishna. As the Agnihotra ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Part 2 • Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa



Words linked to "Oviparous" :   zoology, ovoviviparous, broody



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