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  • Oviparous reproduction makes monotremes the ideal emblem of sudden, unexpected, and heartbreaking failure.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • Oviparous reproduction makes monotremes the ideal emblem of sudden, unexpected, and heartbreaking failure.

    Monotremata 2006

  • Oviparous fishes have their womb bifurcate and placed low down, as was said previously-and, by the way, all scaly fish are oviparous, as the basse, the mullet, the grey mullet, and the etelis, and all the so-called white-fish, and all the smooth or slippery fish except the eel-and their roe is of a crumbling or granular substance.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • As to other sanguineous animals, the Birds, the Serpents, and the Oviparous quadrupeds, in all of them there are the nostril-holes, placed in front of the mouth; but in none are there any distinctly formed nostrils, nothing in fact which can be called nostrils except from a functional point of view.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • Then come the Oviparous fishes, where there is no bone, but merely fish-spine.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • Oviparous quadrupeds cover one another in the same way.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Oviparous quadrupeds do not blink in like manner as the birds; for, living as they do on the ground, they are free from the necessity of having eyes of fluid consistency and of keen sight, whereas these are essential requisites for birds, inasmuch as they have to use their eyes at long distances.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • Oviparous: where reproduction is through eggs laid by the female.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Oviparous bipeds, or birds, also "have many parts like the animals described above."

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

  • Oviparous quadrupeds resemble the viviparous, but they lack some organs, such as ears with an external pinna, mammæ, hair.

    Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

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