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Definition of Oviferous

1. a. Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

Definition of Oviferous

1. Adjective. Producing or bearing eggs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oviferous

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Oviferous

1. Egg-bearing; applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched. Origin: Ovum: cf. F. Ovifere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oviferous

Literary usage of Oviferous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1861)
"The canal being attached to the oviferous sac seems to prove that the ova ... The oviferous sac (fig. 8 d) is voluminous, surrounds the ovarian sac above ..."

2. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston, William Jardine (1837)
"Rostrum without mandibles and palpi; legs slender, the first tarsal joint minute, the claws double, unequal, sharp ; oviferous legs 7-jointed, the terminal ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"oviferous tubes long, cither club-shaped and stout or ... The oviferous sacs are of considerable size, cylindrical, and about two-thirds the length of the ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"In this last genus, the first articulation of the body is narrowed a little in front of the insertion of the two anterior feet, and of the two oviferous ..."

5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"ч and perhaps oviferous production, which is prolonged b?<-k wards. This nucleus would seem to ... oviferous production apparently floate extended backwards ..."

6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... will yet be manifested in some fortunate specimen preserving the sub- abdominal oviferous laminae. No such specimen could have been seen by Mr. MacLeay, ..."

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