Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tube through which eggs pass from the ovary in egg-laying vertebrates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The excretory duct of the female genital gland, or female gonaduct; a passage for the ovum or egg from the ovary of an animal: chiefly applied to such a structure in an oviparous animal, not differentiated into Fallopian tube, womb, and vagina.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called
Fallopian tubes .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A duct through which an
ovum passes from anovary to theuterus or to the exterior.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus
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Examples
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The ovaries of the bird are in the small of the back close to the backbone, and there is a tube called the oviduct or egg-duct, leading from the ovary down to the lower end of the intestine, which it enters.
The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young Margaret Warner Morley 1890
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After the eggs hatch within the oviduct they ingest nutritive fluids.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010
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After the eggs hatch within the oviduct they ingest nutritive fluids.
Dr. Reese Halter: Protecting Great White Sharks Dr. Reese Halter 2010
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If the oviduct, downstream from the ovary, is infected, the microbe is more likely to end up in the white.
Egg-loving salmonella bacteria have been sickening people for decades 2010
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My lawn has always been weedy, but this spring, it is especially bad: fewer blades of fescue, more eruptions of splotchy, leafy plants that look like they belong in those bags of pre-washed salad you get at the supermarket -- plus one massive dandelion that I expect to climb any day now in search of a waterbird capable of squirting precious metals out of its oviduct.
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Ovulation could occur from either ovary with embryonic development taking place in the ipsilateral oviduct and uterine horn.
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Eggs can block up a fish's oviduct, leading to infections that can kill.
Benson, the Giant Carp, Likely Died From Reproductive Complications 2009
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The lower oviduct (the equivalent of the vagina in birds) is typically a simple tube.
Women Bring New Perspectives to Science, or The Twisty Tale of the Duck Oviduct Peggy 2007
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The lower oviduct (the equivalent of the vagina in birds) is typically a simple tube.
Archive 2007-05-01 Peggy 2007
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A breaker has to wrestle with each hen to insert a tube, whereupon the inseminator releases a blast of compressed air, blowing the semen into the hen's oviduct.
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