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- Ovipositor - n. - The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.
- Terebrantia - n. pl. - A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
- Sawfly - n. - Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.
- Terebra - n. - The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.
- Bedegar - n. - A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.
- Rhabdite - n. - One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.