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Definition of Ovipositors
1. ovipositor [n] - See also: ovipositor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ovipositors
Literary usage of Ovipositors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"... etc., on which it feeds. This structure is well seen in the pro-legs of the
common Silkworm. 641. Stings and ovipositors.—The insects of the order ..."
2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1891)
"In insects with short ovipositors that scarcely reach beyond the abdominal outlet
... In those with simple ovipositors the number is eight, as in the male, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"414 that the elements of the ovipositors (in insects) are situated on the ' last
abdominal segment.' As it happens at p. 414. it is the Isopods, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"414 that the elements of the ovipositors (in insects) are situated on the ' last
abdominal segment.' As it happens at p. 414, it is the Isopods, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Some of the ichneumon flies (qv) have ovipositors remarkably adapted to their
... The sting, like other ovipositors, consists of three pairs of styles, ..."
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