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ovipositor
📅 Updated:2025-04-27
🕒 Created:2014-10-05
🆔 ID:5314
Description
A hole possessed by certain female insects, which is generally located at the tip of the abdomen and used exclusively to lay eggs. Among parasitic species, it may be extruded into a piercing organ, used to lay eggs inside prey. They should still be tagged as female, none the less.
See also
- anatomically_correct
- animal_genitalia
- egg_insertion - Eggs being put into an orifice by any means.
- oviposition - The process of laying eggs.
- ovipositor - An organic structure used to deposit or lay eggs.
- pseudo-penis
