oviparous
/oh-vip-er-uhs/US // oʊˈvɪp ər əs //UK // (əʊˈvɪpərəs) //
卵生的,卵生,卵生动物,卵生动物的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Zoology.
- : producing eggs that mature and hatch after being expelled from the body, as birds, most reptiles and fishes, and the monotremes.
Examples
It is an oviparous animal, and its eggs scarcely exceed in size those of a goose.
The same kind of animal is then at one time of the year viviparous, and at another oviparous.
His purpose was the study of the wonderful Australian fauna, the oviparous mammals, marsupials, and ceratodus (lungfish).
Their nervous system also is not materially different, and they are both oviparous.
By far the larger portion of insects is oviparous in the ordinary acceptation of the term.
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