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gravid
[grav-id]
gravid
/ ˈɡæɪ /
adjective
the technical word for pregnant
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Other Word Forms
- gravidity noun
- gravidness noun
- gravidly adverb
- ˈ adverb
- ˈ徱ٲ noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gravid1
C16: from Latin gravidus, from gravis heavy
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None of the gobies reproduced in captivity, but some of the females were “gravid” — or full of eggs.
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Even more intriguing, the frog was clearly gravid, or pregnant with eggs.
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Relationship patterns among flightless stick insects suggest that birds disperse the eggs after eating gravid females.
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He saw in them gravid documents “created at the secret heart of this culture.”
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For beer I am avid, So my gut sticks out “gravid.”
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