ovipositor
معنی فارسی
تخم ريز
معنی کامل و مثالها
/ō´vi päz´i tǝr/n.
● (برخی حشرات و ماهیان) تخم گذار
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Latin 'ovum' (egg) + 'posit-' (from 'ponere', to place) + '-or' (suffix indicating a doer or agent).
مثال
- The wasp used its ovipositor to lay eggs in the tree bark.
- The female mosquito's ovipositor is adapted for piercing the skin of its host.
- The ovipositor of the butterfly is long and slender.
تعریف انگلیسی
noun
- egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes