Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing or breeding worms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing or breeding worms.
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- adjective Producing or breeding
worms .
Etymologies
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Latin vermis a worm + parere to bring forth.
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Examples
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Again, some animals are viviparous, others oviparous, others vermiparous or ‘grub-bearing’.
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For some animals bring forth, together with their offspring, so much food as will last until they are able to supply themselves; of this the vermiparous or oviparous animals are an instance; and the viviparous animals have up to a certain time a supply of food for their young in themselves, which is called milk.
Politics Aristotle 2002
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