Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a viviparous manner; by viviparity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb (Biol.) In a viviparous manner.
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- adverb biology In a
viviparous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Birds like all other animals, whether produced viviparously or from eggs, have an umbilicus during their development, but, when the bird has attained to fuller growth, no signs of this remain visible.
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Cenogonous: producing young at one time oviparously, at another viviparously as in plant-lice.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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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.
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Each female produces viviparously from forty to sixty young at a birth.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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