oviparous
IPA: oʊvˈɪpɝʌs
adjective
- Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
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Examples of "oviparous" in Sentences
- "They'd be oviparous, wouldn't they?" asked Bonnard.
- This group also have oviparous and viviparous forms.
- The beginnings of a transition from oviparous to viviparous reproduction.
- No, I'd say they'd have to be oviparous, and then the eggs would hatch fledglings, unable to fly for quite some time.
- But a creature that is not oviparous is not, by definition, a bird, even if one were found that had feathers, had toothless beaks, and flew.
- Several other features indicate that laticaudids are ‘primitive’ compared to the hydrophiids: they are generally better able to move on land, and they are mostly (but not entirely) oviparous (whereas hydrophiids are all viviparous).
- The first platypus specimen, only a skin, reached England in 1799 and it wasn’t until 1884 when it was definitely established that platypuses were oviparous, that is, they laid eggs like reptiles and birds, but unlike the majority of mammals.
- Was very quick (took literally half an hour for 700 words) even though I had to re-write a few bits that were simply wrong (saying, for instance, that a "seagull gave birth and knowing it was going to die etc." when sea gulls are most definitely oviparous and not viviparous).
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