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Ovipositor

noun
1.
Egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes.





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... space in the middle of the disk. Abdomen punctured, all the segments margined at their apex, and each with a deeply impressed line at their extreme lateral margins; the sixth segment with two minute black spots at its basal margin, the two apical segments smooth and shining; the ovipositor black. ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various


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