Oviparous: alternatives and connections

Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care…

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two specie…

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and const…

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…

A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to co…

A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched.

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable o…

One of a family of fishes (Embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of California, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fis…

The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of pro…

The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and…

Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodie…

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopaedic; -- said of certain birds.