Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Oviparous

Oviparous , adjective

[Latin oviparus; ovum egg + parere to bring forth: compare French ovipare.]

(Physiology) Producing young from eggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous.