Medical Definition of Ovigerous
1.
Egg-bearing; applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.
Origin: Ovum: cf. F. Ovifere.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)
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