Usually means: Produces offspring by laying eggs.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. oviparous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oviparous: Merriam-Webster
  3. oviparous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oviparous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oviparous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oviparous: Vocabulary.com
  7. oviparous: Wordnik
  8. oviparous: Wiktionary
  9. oviparous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. oviparous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. oviparous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. oviparous: Dictionary.com
  13. oviparous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Oviparous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Oviparous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. oviparous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. oviparous: Rhymezone
  18. Oviparous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. oviparous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. oviparous: FreeDictionary.org
  21. oviparous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. oviparous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. oviparous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oviparous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. oviparous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. oviparous: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Oviparous: HYPP Zoology
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (oviparous)

adjective:  Depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

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