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ovipositor

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Noun
 : 
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ovipositor has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

ovipositorn. [L. ovum an egg + positor a placer, fr. ponere to place.].
     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 larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ovipositor, n. a pointed tubular organ with which a female insect deposits her eggs.

Etymology
mod.L f. OVI-(1) + L positor f. ponere posit- to place
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