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Egg-producing   /ɛg-prədˈusɪŋ/   Listen
Egg-producing

adjective
1.
Capable of producing eggs and bearing offspring.  Synonym: young-bearing.






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"Egg-producing" Quotes from Famous Books



... sexual organs. They are the fundamental organs, without which the other sexual organs are useless. Also like the testicles in man, the ovaries have two distinct functions, manufacturing two distinct substances. One function is to manufacture eggs; this, called the ooegenetic or egg-producing function, is its racial function; without it the race could not perpetuate itself. But the ovary has also an individual function. Besides the ova, the ovary manufactures what we call an internal secretion which is absorbed by the blood, and which is ...
— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson



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