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ovipositor


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ovipositor  \O`vi*pos"i*tor\,  n.  [L.  ovum  an  egg  +  positor  a 
  placer,  fr  ponere  to  place.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  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  larv[ae]  of  other 
  insects,  in  order  to  lay  their  own  eggs  within  the  same 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ovipositor 
  n  :  egg-laying  tubular  structure  at  the  end  of  the  abdomen  in 
  many  female  insects  and  some  fishes 




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