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Oviposition   Listen
noun
Oviposition, Ovipositing  n.  The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Oviposition" Quotes from Famous Books



... reached between the two sexes, which in this species is designed to be the perfect condition of a large portion of the community. Four days more make it a perfect male. It is at the same time to be observed that there is, from the period of oviposition, a destined distinction between the sexes of the young bees. The queen lays the whole of the eggs which are designed to become workers, before she begins to lay those which become males. But probably the condition ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers



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