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Ovipositor

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(n.) 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 larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ovipositor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​o/ovipositor.html. 1828.
 
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