Oviparous

Quick meaning: Oviparous is an adjective meaning Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

Meaning

Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

Example Sentences

The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.

Until fairly recently, no female Somniosus had been observed to be carrying embryos, so it was assumed that this was an oviparous species.

And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.

Synonyms for oviparous

Depending on context, synonyms include egglaying, brood, brooding, broody, hatching.

Antonyms for oviparous

Common opposites include viviparous, ovoviviparous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brood, brooding, broody, hatching, oviferous, ovigerous.

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