Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Carrying developing young or eggs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- . Burdened; laden; made heavy.
- Being with child; pregnant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; ; -- of animals as well as people.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Pregnant ; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in an advanced stage of pregnancy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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No matter how many times I read this, I have no idea how gravid is supposed to feel like.
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In the UK we use the term gravid for pregnant (or ready to lay eggs) snakes – maybe reptiles commute regularly in China.
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The uterus appeared to be what we say is gravid, meaning that there had been a baby there.
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The uterus appeared to be what we say is gravid, meaning that there had been a baby there.
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JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug
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JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug (fertilized and ready to lay eggs) and an infestation could begin. ...
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JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug (fertilized and ready to lay eggs) and an infestation could begin. ...
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This week has been so gravid with metaphors from world of fantasy, that I just couldn't find room for the one which has been running through my head all week long.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- In The Darkest Depths of Mordor Chris Weigant 2011
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This week has been so gravid with metaphors from world of fantasy, that I just couldn't find room for the one which has been running through my head all week long.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- In The Darkest Depths of Mordor Chris Weigant 2011
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As well as being beautifully patterned, furrow orbweb spiders have a wonderfully gravid, even feminine shape.
liu_xing commented on the word gravid
this means 'pregnant'. I first came across it when I read a short story called 'gravid babies', whose title stuck in my mind, but the meaning wasn't explained anywhere in the story so it was years later that I found out what it means.
January 23, 2007
deinonychus commented on the word gravid
Wikipedia teaches me some new terms (that I probably never will use (but like anyway)):
A gravida is a pregnant woman.
A nulligravida or gravida 0 is a woman who has never been pregnant.
A primigravida or gravida 1 is a woman who is pregnant for the first time or has been pregnant one time.
A multigravida or more specifically a gravida 2 (also secundigravida), gravida 3, and so on, is a woman who has been pregnant more than one time.
An elderly primigravida is a woman in her first pregnancy, who is at least 35 years old. This term is becoming less common as it may be considered offensive.
November 28, 2011
Louises commented on the word gravid
The indoor silence continued out here, gravid, surveillance rich. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan.
March 3, 2012