gravid

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It would greatly help in the identification of its position if some one would procure the young or a gravid female, and see whether the young are born blind and naked as in the rabbits, or open-eyed and clad with fur as in the hares.

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  1. adjective Carrying developing young or eggs: a gravid uterus; a gravid female.

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  • Therefore she would not become gravid, and her mating instinct would not abate. —  Vale of the Vole
  • "The Royal lady is undeniably gravid," Lowry announced. —  Analog October 1971
  • The guard, similarly gravid-bellied and well-warted, lashed the monster with his crop, driving it into the open to intimidate the jostling, impatient queue of mendicants, merchants, mercenaries, and miscellanies that stretched across the seven-arched Bridge of the Bey of Desmeé, only dry crossing on the turbulent River Plohtus between the hill country and the sea. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 03 - March 2003
  • Maia, mother, and ketos, whale (Greek): named for the sex and gravid state of the holotype. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Inuus, god of fecundity (Latin): named to acknowledge both the exceptional recovery of a gravid female in the cetacean fossil record, and the importance of life history in mammalian evolution. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. Latin gravidus, from gravis, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin gravidus, pregnant, from gravis, heavy, burdened: see grave.
 

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