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Definition of Oviposit
1. v. i. To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.
2. v. t. To deposit or lay (an egg).
Definition of Oviposit
1. Verb. (intransitive) To lay eggs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oviposit
1. to lay eggs [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Oviposit
1. To lay eggs; applied especially to insects. Origin: ovi-+ L. Pono, pp. Positus, to place (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oviposit
Literary usage of Oviposit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"... and then continue to reproduce in the following year, and also that certain
adults of the third generation may begin to oviposit before hibernation. ..."
2. Rhynchophora Or Weevils of North Eastern America by Willis Stanley Blatchley, Charles William Leng (1916)
"In Texas the female begins to oviposit in August, and in Georgia larvae have been
found in nuts as late as Januarv. This species, known as the pecan weevil, ..."
3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1912)
"The vial being shaken slightly, she ran about again, got on a globule, but did
not oviposit. In a few seconds she became motionless. ..."
4. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1885)
"The attempt to induce them to oviposit had, from first to last, proven a total
failure. The question of what had become of grande was now the foremost. ..."
5. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"sooner or later, and a new periodical exacerbation of this strange life-force—or
germ-producing force—is devoted to the maturation and spontaneous oviposit ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"I never observed them oviposit on the dorsum, always on me m^.o-ventral region,
and it was not ... Sometimes they endeavoured to oviposit in an older larva, ..."
7. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1881)
"In another brood which hatched April 26 there were developed females which began
to oviposit on the forty-fifth day. And the females of still another brood ..."
8. Report Upon Cotton Insects: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commissioner by John Henry Comstock (1879)
"During the warmer part of the season the moths in confinement began to oviposit
within thirty-six hours after emerging from the pupa state. ..."
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