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ovipositor
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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] ...
Wikipedia
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The ovipositor is an organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs . In insects an ovipositor consists of a maximum of three pairs of appendages. The details and morphology of the ovipositor vary, but typically its form is adapted to functions such ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) A tubular protruding organ for laying eggs.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
Usage examples of ovipositor.
The Ovipositor would probably weed out his mutation, reverting his child to what he would have beenone of them.
The Ovipositor tended to favor the alien genes over the native life-forms when it could.
Her ovipositor had already tucked itself away and the pleated skin of her abdomen was coming back into place.
The yellow-striped fly lived on the flambreg herds, the female sinking her ovipositor into the hide of the animals.
I guess, think of an ovipositor on a, like a bug, only it works across space, I guess, and--uh -- sort a time.
Now they were immobilized and placed before the Hostmaster, which extended the long ovipositor and set the young to work upon the host things.
With four three-fingered arms, tightly curled ovipositor, and sliding joints of armor, she looked like a nightmare insect.
But natural selection can and does often produce structures for the direct injury of other species, as we see in the fang of the adder, and in the ovipositor of the ichneumon, by which its eggs are deposited in the living bodies of other insects.
The large seeds were placed singly by means of an instrument resembling a magnified ovipositor, such as that possessed by many insects, which at regulated intervals made a hole in the ground and deposited a seed therein.
His stroking opened her ovipositor sphincters just before the egg reached them.
The trick, she knew, was to keep the ovipositor from spasm by controlling hormone levels.
Prime used the ovipositor to splice his alien genetics into her human DNA and impregnated her.
The ovipositor that handled his creation, however, had made himas close as alien technology couldperfect.
Since the ovipositor had its own independent, backup power system, only extensive damage like his father wreaked on the equipment itself would have caused it to fail.
From its reddish depths a pair of insectlike ovipositors extended outward.