Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ovipositor"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ovipositor \O`vi*pos"i*tor\, n. [L. ovum an egg + positor a
placer, fr. ponere to place.] (Zo["o]l.)
The organ with which many insects and some other animals
deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long
ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larv[ae] of other
insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ovipositor
n : egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in
many female insects and some fishes
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