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oviposit, v. Zool.|əʊvɪˈpɒzɪt|
[f. ovi-1 + L. posit-, ppl. stem of pōnĕre to place: cf. deposit.]
intr. To deposit or lay an egg or eggs; esp. by means of a special organ (ovipositor), as an insect.
1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iv. (1828) I. 89 An insect which he informs us gets into the feet of people as they walk..oviposits in them and so occasions very dangerous ulcers. (Note. It is to be hoped this new word may be admitted; as the laying of eggs cannot otherwise be expressed without a periphrasis. For the same reason its substantive oviposition will be employed.) Ibid. xix. (1818) II. 147 After her great laying of male eggs in..May she [queen bee] oviposits in the royal cells..which the workers have in the mean time constructed. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 67 The females oviposit on sea-weeds, or in the cavities of empty shells.
b. trans. To deposit or lay (an egg).
1847in Webster. 1871T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. §879. 363 The ova are developed, impregnated, and oviposited.
Hence oviˈpositing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 317 The shores of those islands may have been frequented, during the ovipositing season, by the turtles and crocodiles. 1887Athenæum 7 May 612/1 In the beehive all the eggs were usually laid by the queen, and in her absence no ovipositing occurs. 1890Cent. Dict. s.v. Ovipositor, The ovipositing organ with which many..insects are provided. |