ovipara

pl. [Pref. ovi-, and Lat. pario to produce.1 Zool.: Egg-producing animals; a name given to a division, embracing birds, reptiles, and fishes, as young alive. 3. Trite; commonplace; spoiled by time or age. "I might say, element; but the word is overworn ." - opposed to the Vivipara, which bring forth their Shakesp.. Twelfth Night , iii. 1. 4. Spent, advanced. "Musing the morning is so much o'erworn." ō-ver-wrěst', v. t. [Eng. over, and wrest .] To wrest, to strain. Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 866. "Such to be pitied, and o'erwrested seeming He acts thy greatne in." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , i. 3. *ō-ver-wres-tle (tle as el), v. t . [Eng. over , and wrestle.] To vanquish in wrestling; to struggle against succe fully. "Life recover'd had the raine, And overwrestled his strong enimy." Spenser: F. Q., I. vii. 24. *ō-ver-write', v . t . [Eng. over , and write , v.] To superscribe. (Sterne: Tristram Shandy , iii. 23.) ō-ver-wrought' (ought as ât), a. [Eng. over , and wrought .] 1. Worked or labored to exce . "Sometimes an author, fond of his own thought, Pursues his object till it's overwrought." Dryden: Art of Poetry. The word oviparis in the ablative, agreeing with avibus , was used by Linnæus as the distinctive character separating Birds from Mammal i a. ō-vi-păr-i-ty, ō-VI s. [OVIPARA.] The state or condition of being oviparous. "Strictly speaking, no distinction exists between ovi parity and viviparity."-G. H. Lewes: Aristotle , p. 330. ō-vip-ar-oŭs, a . [OVIPARA.] Zool.: A term, applied to birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects, whose mode of reproduction is by the exclusion of a germ in the form and condition of an egg, the development of which takes place out of the body, either with or without incubation.