Definition of "oviposits" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oviposit. (verb)

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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."
• "She thus oviposits several times in a twig, and passes from one to another, until she has laid four or five hundred eggs."
• "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."