Word.ws English Dictionary

ovipositions

ovipositions is the plural of oviposition.

Meaning of oviposition

Noun

oviposition (usually uncountable, plural oviposition)

  1. (usually, zoology or paraphilia) The process or instance of ovipositing, laying eggs.
    • If an opsiblastic egg is produced by an individual, it is usually the last oviposition by that animal even if it is also the first.1963, Ellsworth C. Dougherty, “Other Disciplines of Comparative Biology”, in The Lower Metazoa: Comparative Biology and Phylogeny, Berkley: University of California Press, page 474

Questions about ovipositions

What is ovipositions the plural of?
Ovipositions is the plural of oviposition.

Words near ovipositions in the dictionary

  1. oviposited
  2. ovipositing
  3. oviposition
  4. ovipositional
  5. ovipositioning
  6. ovipositions
  7. ovipositor
  8. ovipositors
  9. ovipository
  10. oviposits
  11. oviraptor

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ovipositions (page history and authors); oviposition (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ovipositions.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ovipositions. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.