Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ovipositor \O`vi*pos"i*tor\, n. [L. ovum an egg + positor a
placer, fr. ponere to place.] (Zool.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
ovipositor
n 1: egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in
many female insects and some fishes