gravid
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
gravid
- Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow:
- In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses (novel):
- The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 568:
- The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.
- 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow:
- French: gravide
- German: trächtig, gravid
- Portuguese: grávida
- Russian: бере́менная
- Spanish: grávido, embarazado, encinta
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