oviparous

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oviparous englannista suomeksi

Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.

''The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.''

{{quote-text|en|year=1643|author=Thomas Browne|title=Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w
(quote-book)|year=1983|publisher=Knopf|ISBN=0679722106|passage=Until fairly recently, no female ''Somniosus'' had been observed to be carrying embryos, so it was assumed that this was an oviparous species.|page=138