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ovi-
- a combining form meaning “egg,” used in the formation of compound words:
oviferous.
ovi-
combining_form
- egg or ovum
oviform
ovotestis
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ovi-1
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Example Sentences
At her feet was a dark excavation where was the skeleton of Ovi the King.
In the ovi-viviparous dog-fish, the internal organs of the female have a very similar structure.
There is therefore every reason to believe, that this animal also is ovi-viviparous in its mode of generation.
When glass is used, there is no risk that the bed moth will find a place in which she can insert her ovi-positor and lay her eggs.
And all this said of a youth of twenty—heu nimimn brevis ovi decus et desiderium!
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