Ovipositor

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1. Noun

The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

2. Noun

egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes
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