oviparous en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əʊˈvɪpəɹəs/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /oʊˈvɪpəɹəs/ (US)
Etymology
Adapted borrowing of Late Latin ōviparus + -ous. By surface analysis, ovi- + -parous.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
Until fairly recently, no female Somniosus had been observed to be carrying embryos, so it was assumed that this was an oviparous species.
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 138:And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.
1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend:The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
Deriveds
semioviparous · oviparously · oviparousness
Relateds
oviparity · viviparous · ovoviviparous
Synonyms
Translations (29)
cs vejcorodý (egg laying) · el ωοτόκος (egg laying) · br vic'haner (egg laying) · it oviparo (egg laying) · cy dodwyol (egg laying) · bn অণ্ডজ (egg laying) · ga ubh-bhreitheach (egg laying) · ru яйцено́сный (egg laying) · de ovipar (egg laying) · grc ᾠότοκος (egg laying) · fi ovipaarinen (egg laying) · ka კვერცხმდებელი (egg laying) · ka კვერცხისმდებელი (egg laying) · fr ovipare (egg laying) · de eierlegend (egg laying) · sv ovipar (egg laying) · es ovíparo (egg laying) · fi muniva (egg laying) · ca ovípar (egg laying) · ms oviparus (egg laying) · ja 卵生の (egg laying) · la oviparus (egg laying) · cmn 卵生 (egg laying) · hu tojásrakó (egg laying) · mi hua-pao-waho (egg laying) · pl jajorodny (egg laying) · nl eierleggend (egg laying) · ru яйцекладу́щий (egg laying) · nl ovipaar (egg laying)