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Webster 1913 Edition

Oviferous

O-vif′er-ous

,
Adj.
[
Ov
um +
-ferous
: cf. F.
ovifère
.]
(Biol.)
Egg-bearing; – applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched.

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