Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing eggs that hatch within the female's body, as in certain fishes and reptiles and many invertebrates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing eggs which are hatched within the body of the parent but without placental attachment, so that the young are born alive, yet have not been developed in that direct connection with the blood-vessels of the mother which is characteristic of viviparous animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to such kind of animals such as some reptiles whose eggs hatch inside their body
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't see that they'd be ovoviviparous ... too much weight for the mother if she had to carry her young for any length of time.
Cattle Town 2010
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Sharks are ovoviviparous -- that is, they bring forth living young instead of eggs.
Book Randomness Tag! Cheryl 2005
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I don't see that they'd be ovoviviparous ... too much weight for the mother if she had to carry her young for any length of time.
Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978
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Coenogonous: oviparous at one season of the year, ovoviviparous at another, as in Aphididae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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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 Liu, Y.-L., Zhao, Y., Dai, Z.-M., Chen, H.-M., Yan 2009
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The types of vipers that are ovoviviparous include Bitis, Echis carinatus, and most Vipera.
Prolagus commented on the word ovoviviparous
Particularly funny when pronounced by a Sardinian: ovvovvivvipparous.
August 2, 2008
wordlover42 commented on the word ovoviviparous
cool word!
June 20, 2009