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VIVIPAROUS
viviparous, live-bearing
(adjective) producing living young (not eggs)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
viviparous (not comparable)
(of an animal or animal species) Being born alive, as are most mammals, some reptiles, and a few fish (as opposed to being laid as an egg and subsequently hatching, as do most birds and many other species).
(of a plant or plant species) Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates).
Antonyms
• (of an animal): oviparous
Source: Wiktionary
Vi*vip"a*rous, a. Etym: [L. viviparus; vivus alive + parere to bear, bring forth. Cf. Viper.] (Biol.)
Definition: Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous. Viviparous fish. (Zoöl.) See Embiotocoid.
РViviparous shell (Zo̦l.), any one of numerous species of operculated fresh-water gastropods belonging to Viviparus, Melantho, and allied genera. Their young, when born, have a well-developed spiral shell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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