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ovipositors

n. (plural of ovipositor English) - a tubular egg-laying organ.

Usage examples of "ovipositors".

Silver wires formed double helixes around both arching ovipositors, an agonizingly long task at which her brother and friends had helped.

Her ovipositors lay flat against the back of her abdomen, no longer capable of laying eggs.

But with his attitude and temperament he would be lucky to spur a female's ovipositors to so much as twitch in his direction.

Seeing her perfect vee-shaped face, her golden eyes that seemed to glow within, the elegantly sensuous sweep of her ovipositors and the gleam of soft light off her brilliant blue-green exoskeleton made him uncomfortable.

Certainly neither displayed anything like a pair of ovipositors, but then, he reminded himself, most mammals practice live birth.

This prompted him to observe that while the effort of passing objects through a pair of ovipositors was a strain on the thranx female, at least eggs did not move on the way out.

Her ovipositors twitched as she settled herself down on a bench disguised to look like a fallen log, all six legs straddling the supportive cylinder.

One of her ovipositors had been surgically removed, the consequence of a disease that was not mentioned.

Flinx saw her antennae flicking nervously, the graceful curve of her ovipositors tightening uncertainly.