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Meaning of "oviparity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVIPARITY

oviparity  [ˌəʊvɪˈpærɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVIPARITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Oviparity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OVIPARITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Oviparity

Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects, some molluscs and arachnids. Five modes of reproduction can be differentiated based on relations between zygote and parents: ▪ Ovuliparity: fecundation is external ▪ Oviparity: fecundation is internal, the female lays zygotes as eggs with important vitellus ▪ Ovo-viviparity: or oviparity with retention of zygotes in the female’s body or in the male’s body, but there are no trophic interactions between zygote and parents. In the sea horse, zygotes are retained in the male’s ventral "marsupium". In the frog Rhinoderma darwinii, the zygotes developed in the vocal sac. In the frog Rheobatrachus, zygotes developed in the stomach. ▪ Histotrophic viviparity: the zygotes developed in the female’s oviducts, but find their nutriments by oophagy or adelphophagy. ▪ Hemotrophic viviparity: nutriments are provided by the female, often through placenta.

Definition of oviparity in the English dictionary

The definition of oviparity in the dictionary is the quality of being oviparous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVIPARITY


charity
ˈtʃærɪtɪ
clarity
ˈklærɪtɪ
disparity
dɪˈspærɪtɪ
familiarity
fəˌmɪlɪˈærɪtɪ
imparity
ɪmˈpærɪtɪ
iteroparity
ˌɪtərəʊˈpærɪtɪ
multiparity
ˌmʌltɪˈpærɪtɪ
nonparity
ˌnɒnˈpærɪtɪ
nulliparity
ˌnʌlɪˈpærɪtɪ
omniparity
ˌɒmnɪˈpærɪtɪ
ovoviviparity
ˌəʊvəʊˌvaɪvɪˈpærɪtɪ
parity
ˈpærɪtɪ
polarity
pəʊˈlærɪtɪ
popularity
ˌpɒpjʊˈlærɪtɪ
primiparity
ˌprɪmɪˈpærɪtɪ
scissiparity
ˌsɪsɪˈpærɪtɪ
semelparity
ˈsɛməlˌpærɪtɪ
singularity
ˌsɪŋɡjʊˈlærɪtɪ
solidarity
ˌsɒlɪˈdærɪtɪ
viviparity
ˌvɪvɪˈpærɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVIPARITY

ovicide
Ovid
Ovidian
oviducal
oviduct
oviductal
Oviedo
oviferous
oviform
ovigerous
ovine
oviparous
oviparously
oviposit
oviposition
ovipositional
ovipositor
oviraptor
ovisac
ovist

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVIPARITY

angularity
authority
cellularity
circularity
complementarity
granularity
hilarity
interdisciplinarity
irregularity
modularity
molarity
muscularity
nonlinearity
peculiarity
planarity
rarity
registered charity
regularity
similarity
unfamiliarity
vulgarity

Synonyms and antonyms of oviparity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «oviparity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVIPARITY

Find out the translation of oviparity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of oviparity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oviparity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卵生
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oviparity
570 millions of speakers

English

oviparity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

oviparity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بيوضية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

oviparity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

oviparity
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

oviparity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oviparité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ovipariti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

oviparity
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

卵生
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

oviparity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oviparity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

oviparity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

oviparity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गर्भपाता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ovipar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

oviparity
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

oviparity
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

oviparity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oviparity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κύστεων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oviparity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oviparity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oviparity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oviparity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVIPARITY»

The term «oviparity» is used very little and occupies the 179.507 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVIPARITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «oviparity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «oviparity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about oviparity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVIPARITY»

Discover the use of oviparity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oviparity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes: Patterns and ...
Earlier studies that have been based on oviparity as the ple- siomorphic reproductive state in modern elasmobranchs are less parsimonious than one based on plesiomorphous yolk-sac viviparity. In the oviparity “camp,” Wourms & Lombardi ...
Kathleen Sabina Cole, 2010
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Management Techniques for Elasmobranch Fisheries
Elasmobranch reproductive strategies include oviparity, aplacental viviparity and placental viviparity (Wourms, 1977). Oviparous species enclose eggs in an egg case and deposit them into the environment, where embryos develop external to  ...
John A. Musick, Ramón Bonfil, 2005
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Oviparity
This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects, some molluscs and arachnids.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, Second Edition
In lecithotrophic species, the embryos derive their nutrition entirely from yolk reserves present within the egg case. Lecithotrophic forms of reproduction include yolk sac viviparity and oviparity. In matrotrophic species, the energy reserves ...
Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus, 2012
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The Evolution of Parental Care
Egg retention for some time period tr will be favoured over strict oviparity (no egg retention) where where fdis the total time to hatching, including the duration of egg retention. For strict oviparity, b is clutch size, E is egg survival to hatching, and ...
T. H. Clutton-Brock, 1991
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Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, reptiles, all birds, the monotremes, and most insects and arachnids.
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken, 2010
7
Introduction to Marine Biology
Licensed chefs remove the highly toxic liver and prepare the flesh, fins, and testis for human consumption. the level of pituitary and gonadal hormones controls the reproductive process. Three reproductive modes are seen in fishes: oviparity, ...
George Karleskint, Richard Turner, James Small, 2012
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Fish Reproduction
Oviparity Oviparous or egg-laying sharks enclose their fertilized eggs in protective egg cases and deposit them on or attached to substrate on the ocean bottom. Embryos are nourished solely from the yolk sac and no further parental care is ...
Maria J Rocha, Augustine Arukwe, B.G. Kapoor, 2008
9
Behavioral Endocrinology
Still another important distinction in modes of reproduction is the method by which the young are reproduced — viviparity or oviparity. Basically, vivip- arity (" live-bearing") exists when the young develop within the body of the mother, as in  ...
Jill B. Becker, 2002
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Animal Endocrinology
Finally, oviparity has given rise to viviparity, especially in the anurans and apodans. Oviparity. Many anuran amphibians are oviparous animals with external fertilization, although internal fertilization occurs in several species. Breeding in ...
Manju Yadav, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVIPARITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oviparity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Do you know shark myths from facts?
This is called oviparity. When the eggs are laid, they are in a protective egg case which sometimes washes up on the beach and is commonly ... «Wake, Wind and Surf, Nov 14»
2
Tour de Cure
There were a oviparity of route lengths from 60miles, 40 miles, 20 miles and 10 miles. Janice Cagle the co-chair for Tour De Cure said, "this ... «KIII TV3, Mar 14»
3
fabian oefner explodes views of classic cars
for 'hatch', oefner presents his translation of the birth of a car, reproducing the oviparity found in nature as a super-sleek automobile birthing ... «Designboom, Nov 13»
4
The enormous liolaemine radiation: paradoxical herbivory, viviparity …
However, their phylogenetic work led them to argue that these lizards cannot switch from viviparity back to oviparity: there are a few places in ... «Scientific American, Jun 13»
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Animal News Roundup: Ancient Horse Genome Sequenced …
... “lack of gene flow” between warm and cold-adapted, tropical lizards may account for why viviparity (verses oviparity) evolved and took hold in ... «PlanetSave.com, Jun 13»
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Viviparous lizards facing mass extinction due to global warming
... most diverse groups of vertebrates on earth have only been possible due to their evolution to viviparity (live birth) from oviparity (laying eggs). «Hindustan Times, Mar 13»
7
Global Warming May Lead To Mass Extinction Of Viviparous Lizards
These lizards have successfully evolved to reproduce through viviparity (live birth) from oviparity (laying eggs), to survive in cold climates. «iScienceTimes.com, Mar 13»
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Mass Extinction Of Lizards In The Near Future As A Result Of …
... diverse groups of vertebrates on earth — have only been possible due to their evolution to viviparity (live birth) from oviparity (laying eggs). «PlanetSave.com, Mar 13»
9
How to Farm Brine Shrimps
Both oviparity and ovoviviparity are found in all Artemia strains, and female individuals can switch from one mode to the other between two ... «TheFishSite.com, Sep 12»
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Platypus (10 Friday Photos)
... learning in school that mammals are animals which don't have the ability of oviparity, I thought, “All right, but you forget about the platypus!”. «PlanetSave.com, Apr 11»

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