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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
oviposit .
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Examples
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The reason of this is that their nature, because of its imperfection, oviposits as it were before the right time, as if the scolex, while still growing in size, were a soft egg.
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She thus oviposits several times in a twig, and passes from one to another, until she has laid four or five hundred eggs.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Polynema, another egg-parasite, which lays its eggs (one, seldom two) in the eggs of a small dragon fly, Agrion virgo, which oviposits in the parenchyma of the leaves of waterlilies.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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It also oviposits in the terminal shoots of pine saplings, dwarfing and permanently deforming the tree.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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An egg batch can have more than 100 eggs so a couple may copulate more than 30 times before female oviposits all the egg batch "
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An egg batch can have more than 100 eggs so a couple may copulate more than 30 times before female oviposits all the egg batch "
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An egg batch can have more than 100 eggs so a couple may copulate more than 30 times before female oviposits all the egg batch "
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