viviparous
adjective
bringing forth living young rather than eggs, as most mammals and some reptiles and fishes.
viviparously
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a word derived from
viviparous.
Example Sentences
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"I was left for dead here by my Alpha Plus and gave birth viviparously to John."
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2010
Each of these "streamers" is, in fact, a young grass-plant, budded off "viviparously," as it is called, from the flower-head, or "spikelet," and having nothing to do with the proper fertilized seed or grain.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
Cenogonous: producing young at one time oviparously, at another viviparously as in plant-lice.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Each female produces viviparously from forty to sixty young at a birth.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
