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Definition of Ovarious
1. a. Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.
Definition of Ovarious
1. Adjective. (archaic) Consisting of eggs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ovarious
1. consisting of eggs [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovarious
Literary usage of Ovarious
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"But the ovarious state of their future offspring exposing the measure of their
reproduction to accident and depredation, God has given them a mysterious ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and by William Fordyce Mavor (1802)
"the ovarious productions of these birds, but also from the flesh ; killing numbers
of them at a time. So little timidity did they shew, that they suffered ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"ovarious, (o-va'-rn-ns) a. Consisting of eggs- To OSSIFY, (cs'-so-fi) vn To become
bone. OSTENSIBLE, (98-ten'-»e-bl) a. ..."
4. The Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson (1854)
"... his ovarious food; 873 Or sweeps the fishy shore! or treasures up The plumage,
rising full, to form the bed Of luxury. And here awhile the Muse, ..."
5. The Complete Poetical Works of James Thomson by James Thomson, James Logie Robertson (1908)
"... The shepherd's sea-girt reign ; or, to the rocks Dire-clinging, gathers his
ovarious food; Or sweeps the fishy shore ; or treasures up The plumage, ..."
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