Definitions

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  • adjective capable of producing eggs and bearing offspring

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Examples

  • They are communal creatures, descendants - we theorize - of animals that dwelt together in burrows, in large numbers, with just a few breeders of the young-bearing sex.) "

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

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