Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Giving rise to an ovum; producing ova, as the ovary: as, an ovigenous organ.

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  • Some hours or even a day before the laying, that egg by itself represents or even exceeds in bulk the whole of the ovigenous apparatus.

    Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

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