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a-, an-: Pronunciation: /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/.Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the ...
Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.
Pseudophyllid cestodes (former order pseudophyllidea) are tapeworms with multiple "segments" (proglottids) and two bothria or "sucking grooves" as adults. Proglottids are identifiably pseudophyllid as the genital pore and uterine pore are located on the mid- ventral surface, and the ovary is bilobed (" dumbbell -shaped").
Since a fertilized egg represents a complete organism at one stage of its life cycle, eating an egg is a form of predation, the killing of another organism for food. Egg predation is found widely across the animal kingdom, including in fish, birds, snakes, mammals, and arthropods. Some species are specialist egg predators, but many more are ...
The Order of St. George egg, and its counterpart the Steel Military egg were given a modest design, in keeping with the austerity of World War I. [2] Fabergé billed 13,347 rubles for the two eggs. [1] The Dowager Empress took the Order of St. George egg with her when she traveled to Kiev in May 1916, thus avoiding the October Revolution.
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of or pertaining to an (egg), a woman's egg, the ovum Greek ᾠόν, ᾠο-(ōión, ōio-), egg, ovum oogenesis: oophor(o)-of or pertaining to the woman's (ovary) Neoclassical Greek ᾠοφόρον (ōiophóron), ovary, egg-bearing oophorectomy: ophthalm(o)-of or pertaining to the (eye) Greek ὀφθαλμός (ophthalmós), the eye ...
Oviraptor (/ ˈ oʊ v ɪ r æ p t ər /; lit. ' egg thief ') is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. The first remains were collected from the Djadokhta Formation of Mongolia in 1923 during a paleontological expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews, and in the following year the genus and type species Oviraptor philoceratops were named by Henry ...