What does viviparous mean?

Definitions for viviparous
vaɪˈvɪp ər əs, vɪ-vi·vip·a·rous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. viviparous, live-bearingadjective

    producing living young (not eggs)

Wiktionary

  1. viviparousadjective

    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).

  2. viviparousadjective

    Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates).

  3. Etymology: From viviparus, from vivus + pario.

Wikipedia

  1. viviparous

    Among animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the mother. This is opposed to oviparity which is a reproductive mode in which females lay developing eggs that complete their development and hatch externally from the mother.The term 'viviparity' and its adjective form 'viviparous' derive from the Latin vivus meaning "living" and pario meaning "give birth to".

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  1. viviparous

    Viviparous refers to an organism that gives birth to live offspring that have developed inside the body of the parent, as opposed to laying eggs. This type of reproduction is common in mammals.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Viviparousadjective

    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

  2. Etymology: [L. viviparus; vivus alive + parere to bear, bring forth. Cf. Viper.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Viviparous

    vī-vip′a-rus, adj. producing young alive: (bot.) germinating from a seed still on the parent plant.—ns. Vīvipar′ity, Vīvip′arousness.—adv. Vīvip′arously. [L., from vivus, alive, parĕre, to produce.]

Entomology

  1. Viviparous

    applied to insects which bear living young.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of viviparous in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of viviparous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of viviparous in a Sentence

  1. Lucas Legendre:

    We suspect these large reptiles had the same reproductive strategy as viviparous lizards and snakes, which lay eggs with a very thin shell that hatch immediately after being laid.

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