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oviparous

/əʊˈvɪpəɹəs/US/oʊˈvɪpəɹəs/

oviparous adjective: depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

Adjective

oviparous (not comparable)

  1. Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
    • The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
    • 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...1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
    Synonyms:
    egglaying

oviparous meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Malay

oviparous in Tamil

முட்டை மூலம் குஞ்சு பொரிக்கின்ற, முட்டையிடும், முட்டை யிட்டு இனப் பெருக்கம், முட்டை வழி இனப் பெருக்கம், முட்டைகளிடுபவை, முட்டையிடுவன

oviparous in Bengali

egg laying
অণ্ডজ oṇḍojo

oviparous in Kannada

ಮೊಟ್ಟೆಯಿಡುವ

oviparous in Malay

egg laying
oviparus

Synonyms of oviparous

Origin of oviparous

Adapted borrowing of Late Latin ōviparus + -ous. By surface analysis, ovi- + -parous.

Words formed from oviparous

Questions about oviparous

What does oviparous mean?
Oviparous means depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
What is oviparous in Tamil?
Oviparous in Tamil is முட்டை மூலம் குஞ்சு பொரிக்கின்ற, முட்டையிடும், முட்டை யிட்டு இனப் பெருக்கம். See Oviparous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oviparous?
Oviparous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce oviparous?
Oviparous is pronounced /əʊˈvɪpəɹəs/ (UK).

Words near oviparous in the dictionary

  1. ovinization
  2. ovinized
  3. ovipara
  4. oviparae
  5. oviparity
  6. oviparous
  7. oviparously
  8. oviparousness
  9. ovipary
  10. oviposit
  11. oviposited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oviparous (page history and authors); oviparous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oviparous (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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