different between oviparous vs diapause

English

Etymology

From Latin oviparus, ovo- “egg” + pari? (“give birth, produce, bring forth”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?p???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o??v?p???s/

Adjective

oviparous (not comparable)

1. 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.

   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend [1]

     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.

Related terms

• ovoviviparous

Translations

See also

• viviparous

Anagrams

• apivorous

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da??p??z/

Noun

diapause (plural diapauses)

1. (biology, entomology, ichthyology) A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• quiescence

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.poz/

Noun

diapause f (plural diapauses)

1. (biology, entomology, ichthyology) diapause