Definition of oviposit

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Oviposit (v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).

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Terebra :: Terebra (n.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
Piercer :: Piercer (n.) The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect..
Sting :: Sting (v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion..
Rhabdite :: Rhabdite (n.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..
Oviposit :: Oviposit (v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).
Oviposit :: Oviposit (v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.
Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..
Oviposition :: Oviposition (n.) The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects..
Ovipositing :: Ovipositing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oviposi.
Ovipositing :: Ovipositing (n.) Alt. of Ovipositio.
Piercer :: Piercer (n.) An insect provided with an ovipositor.
Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..
Sawfly :: Sawfly (n.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.
Oviposited :: Oviposited (imp. & p. p.) of Oviposi.
Ovipositor :: Ovipositor (n.) 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 larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same..
Terebrantia :: Terebrantia (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
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