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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. . Burdened; laden; made heavy.
  2. Being with child; pregnant.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; ; -- of animals as well as people.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. in an advanced stage of pregnancy

Etymologies

  1. From Latin gravidus ("laden, pregnant"), from gravis ("heavy"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin gravidus, from gravis, heavy; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • 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

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