oviscapte

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin ovum (“egg”) +‎ captare (“to conduct”)^[1]

Noun[edit]

oviscapte (plural oviscaptes)

(entomology) The oviscape or ovipositor.

References[edit]

^ Gordh, G and Headrick, D (2011) A Dictionary of Entomology‎^[1], CABI, →ISBN, page 991

Anagrams[edit]

vitascope

French[edit]

Noun[edit]

oviscapte m (plural oviscaptes)

ovipositor

Further reading[edit]

“oviscapte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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