Ō'vi-pŏs'ĭ-tor, n.

n. [Lat. ovum, egg, and positor, a positor, a placer, from ponere, to place. See supra.] (Entom.) The organ by which eggs are deposited. In some ichneumons it is long and fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same. Dana.