oviposition
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oviposition (usually uncountable, plural ovipositions)
- (zoology) The process of laying eggs, or ovipositing.
- 1963, Ellsworth C. Dougherty, “Other Disciplines of Comparative Biology”, in The Lower Metazoa: Comparative Biology and Phylogeny, Berkley: University of California Press, page 474:
- If an opsiblastic egg is produced by an individual, it is usually the last oviposition by that animal even if it is also the first.