oviscape
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ovum (“egg”) plus scāpus (“stem or shaft”), from Ancient Greek (Doric) σκᾶπος (skâpos).
Noun[edit]
oviscape (plural oviscapes)
- (entomology) The basal part of the ovipositor of some species of insects, typically the non-retractile sheath that remains exposed when the ovipositor is withdrawn and not in action.[1]
- (entomology) The oviscapte or ovipositor.[2]