Opiparous vs Oviparous - What's the difference?
opiparous | oviparous |
(obsolete) Sumptuous, luxurious.
*, II.ii.4:
*:a fair-built and sumptuous edifice, as that of the Persian kings so much renowned by Diodorus and Curtius, in which all was almost beaten gold […], with sweet odours and perfumes, generous wines, opiparous fare, etc. Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.
* 1643: Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend [http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=112065252&textreg=1&query=+oviparous&id=BroReli]
As adjectives the difference between opiparous and oviparous
is that opiparous is sumptuous, luxurious while oviparous is egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.opiparous
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(en adjective)oviparous
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(-)- ''The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
- And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.