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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. 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.