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- noun Plural form of
ovipositor . - atubular egg -laying organ .
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Examples
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Equipped with long ovipositors, the wasps penetrate the bark and lay their eggs.
The Bugs Rescuing the Baseball Bats Mike Sielski 2011
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What stood out for me was “We were planted in the same dung heap by the same telescopic ovipositors.
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Based explicitly on the egg-laying structures of cicadas with grooved ovipositors, the poems lay bare their devices in the special way that only a Wetumpkan high on yumyumcha can pull off.
Books by Portland Authors: Rodney Koeneke - Reading Local: Portland 2009
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We were planted in the same dung heap by the same telescopic ovipositors.
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Like those of her female colleagues, Kesedbarmek's ovipositors had stiffened in suspicion at the sight of the unknown human female, until Truzenzuzex had assured her that Clarity had more than earned the same access to restricted information as himself and Tse-Mallory.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Edit remember.… this is the same “God” that intelligently designed the ovipositors of the female ichneumon wasps.
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Like those of her female colleagues, Kesedbarmek's ovipositors had stiffened in suspicion at the sight of the unknown human female, until Truzenzuzex had assured her that Clarity had more than earned the same access to restricted information as himself and Tse-Mallory.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Like those of her female colleagues, Kesedbarmek's ovipositors had stiffened in suspicion at the sight of the unknown human female, until Truzenzuzex had assured her that Clarity had more than earned the same access to restricted information as himself and Tse-Mallory.
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Helping her companion to his feet, the female struggled to untangle her knotted ovipositors before fighting to adjust her own rain shield.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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Helping her companion to his feet, the female struggled to untangle her knotted ovipositors before fighting to adjust her own rain shield.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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