gravid
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- gravidity noun
- gravidly adverb
- gravidness noun
Etymology
Origin of gravid
First recorded in 1590–1600; from Latin gravidus, “with child, with young, pregnant,” equivalent to grav(is) “heavy, weighty, burdened,” + -idus -id 4
Example Sentences
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Even more intriguing, the frog was clearly gravid, or pregnant with eggs.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024
Relationship patterns among flightless stick insects suggest that birds disperse the eggs after eating gravid females.
From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023
When Ung Bun and other participants catch gravid crabs they either release them back into waters where they are unlikely to be caught or bring them home to raise until they give birth.
From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2023
It captures, more than anything before, the gravid, intoxicating atmosphere of Britain in the 1990s that nurtured the most consequential generation of British artists of the last century.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
The air over their heads churned and darkened, a cloud coalescing out of nowhere, gray and dense and gravid with rain.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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