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US
/ˌoʊˌvoʊˌvaɪˈvɪpɝəs/
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ADJECTIVE
- producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body
How To Use ovoviviparous In A Sentence
- Females are ovoviviparous, retaining yolked embryos without nourishing them.
- Sand tiger sharks are ovoviviparous (incubate eggs internally and offspring are born live).
- These may be viviparous, in which case the mother's body provides nourishment to the embryo, or ovoviviparous, in which case the eggs develop without additional nourishment inside the mother.
- The types of vipers that are ovoviviparous include Bitis, Echis carinatus, and most Vipera. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- These may be viviparous, in which case the mother's body provides nourishment to the embryo, or ovoviviparous, in which case the eggs develop without additional nourishment inside the mother.
- Coenogonous: oviparous at one season of the year, ovoviviparous at another, as in Aphididae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Over 20 oviparous specifically expressed genes were identified through screening the subtracted cDNA library enriched between oviparous and ovoviviparous Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
- These animals are ovoviviparous (producing eggs that develop and hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it).
- This species is ovoviviparous, meaning that the eggs develop within the female and the young are born alive.
- I don't see that they'd be ovoviviparous ... too much weight for the mother if she had to carry her young for any length of time. Cattle Town