Oviparous

From Latin oviparus

Full definition of oviparous

Egg-laying; depositing eggs that develop and hatch outside the body as a reproductive strategy.''The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.

1643: Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=112065252&textreg=1&query=+oviparous&id=BroReliAnd though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.