Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Carrying developing young or eggs: a gravid uterus; a gravid female.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- . Burdened; laden; made heavy.
- Being with child; pregnant.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; ; -- of animals as well as people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in an advanced stage of pregnancy
Etymologies
- Latin gravidus, from gravis, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“No matter how many times I read this, I have no idea how gravid is supposed to feel like.”
“In the UK we use the term gravid for pregnant (or ready to lay eggs) snakes – maybe reptiles commute regularly in China.”
“The uterus appeared to be what we say is gravid, meaning that there had been a baby there.”
“JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug”
“JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug (fertilized and ready to lay eggs) and an infestation could begin. ...”
“This week has been so gravid with metaphors from world of fantasy, that I just couldn't find room for the one which has been running through my head all week long.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- In The Darkest Depths of Mordor
“As well as being beautifully patterned, furrow orbweb spiders have a wonderfully gravid, even feminine shape.”
“MartÃnez Celaya's paintings and sculptures at MOBIA were anything but straightforwardly religious -- they were gravid with mystery and doubt.”
The Huffington Post: Matthew Milliner: The Return Of The Religious In Contemporary Art
“Martínez Celaya's paintings and sculptures at MOBIA were anything but straightforwardly religious -- they were gravid with mystery and doubt.”
The Huffington Post: Matthew Milliner: The Return Of The Religious In Contemporary Art
“He twines himself about the gravid apple tree's trunk caduceus-like, slithering his handsome head up into the canopy's gray-green leaves.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gravid’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 136 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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nschotten's list
A list of words.
fecundity, atavistic, steatopygous, demiurge, sufflaminandus, occiput, trenchant, hobnails, soft-pedal, parsimony, fatuous, ratiocination and 28 more...
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reproduction
gravid, hysterectomy, vanishing twin, fetal resorption, fetus papyraceus, craniopagus paras..., vestigial twin, fetus in fetu, pump twin, blighted ovum, fetal pole, crown-rump length and 67 more...
Louises The indoor silence continued out here, gravid, surveillance rich. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 3, 2012
deinonychus Wikipedia teaches me some new terms (that I probably never will use (but like anyway)):
A gravida is a pregnant woman.
A nulligravida or gravida 0 is a woman who has never been pregnant.
A primigravida or gravida 1 is a woman who is pregnant for the first time or has been pregnant one time.
A multigravida or more specifically a gravida 2 (also secundigravida), gravida 3, and so on, is a woman who has been pregnant more than one time.
An elderly primigravida is a woman in her first pregnancy, who is at least 35 years old. This term is becoming less common as it may be considered offensive.
Nov 28, 2011
liu_xing this means 'pregnant'. I first came across it when I read a short story called 'gravid babies', whose title stuck in my mind, but the meaning wasn't explained anywhere in the story so it was years later that I found out what it means.
Jan 23, 2007