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Oviparous

//oʊˈvɪpəɹəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy. not-comparable

    "The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals."

Adjective
  1. 1
    egg-laying wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin oviparus + -ous.

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