Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving rise to an ovum; producing ova, as the ovary: as, an ovigenous organ.
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Some hours or even a day before the laying, that egg by itself represents or even exceeds in bulk the whole of the ovigenous apparatus.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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