oviparous

adj

Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Late Latin ōviparus + -ous. By surface analysis, ovi- + -parous.

1. 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.”

   “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.”