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"It's true -- female honeybees die after they sting. Their stingers are actually ovipositors, tubular structures extending from the abdomen that sometimes contain eggs. When the barbed stinger is left inside the victim, the honeybee mortally tears her abdomen in the process. Alas, she dies. "
ovipositors [oh-vuh-poz-i-ter] "o·vi·pos·i·tor" = (in certain female insects) an organ at the end of the abdomen, by which eggs are deposited.
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