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usually uncountable, plural ovipositions
(zoology) The process of laying eggs, or ovipositing. quotations
If an opsiblastic egg is produced by an individual, it is usually the last oviposition by that animal even if it is also the first.
1963, Ellsworth C. Dougherty, “Other Disciplines of Comparative Biology”, in The Lower Metazoa: Comparative Biology and Phylogeny, Berkley: University of California Press, page 474