oviscapte

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ovum (“egg”) +‎ captare (“to conduct”)[1]

Noun

oviscapte (plural oviscaptes)

(entomology) The oviscape or ovipositor.

References

Gordh, G and Headrick, D (2011) A Dictionary of Entomology‎, CABI, →ISBN, page 991

Anagrams

vitascope

French

Noun

oviscapte m (plural oviscaptes)

ovipositor

Further reading

“oviscapte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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