ovoviviparous

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Coenogonous: oviparous at one season of the year, ovoviviparous at another, as in Aphididae.

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  1. adjective Producing eggs that hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it. Used of certain fishes and reptiles and many invertebrates.

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  • The general belief is that they are ovoviviparous, which means that they hatch their eggs inside their body, and produce their young already born, so to say; but one specimen which I captured and placed in a fern-case certainly deposited eggs, from which the young emerged by degrees from the day of deposit till next day, though one or two struggled through the egg-film very soon after being deposited. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Coenogonous: oviparous at one season of the year, ovoviviparous at another, as in Aphididae. —  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • Garter snakes are ovoviviparous. —  The Albert Lea Tribune
  • Over 20 oviparous specifically expressed genes were identified through screening the subtracted cDNA library enriched between oviparous and ovoviviparous —  Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
 

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  1. from New Latin ovoviviparus, from Latin ovum, egg, + Late Latin viviparus, bringing forth alive: see viviparous.
 

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