Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ovipositor

Ovipositor , noun

[Latin ovum an egg + positor a placer, from ponere to place.]

(Zoology) The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvae of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.