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Gravid comes from Latin gravis, meaning "heavy." It can refer to a female who is literally pregnant, and it also has the figurative meanings of pregnant: "full or teeming" and "meaningful." Thus, a writer may be gravid with ideas as she sits down to write; a cloud may be gravid with rain; or a speaker may make a gravid pause before announcing his remarkable findings.
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the patient is a gravid woman in her seventh month
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Unlike young females, gravid females need to locate carrion for oviposition and distinguish between fresh and aging carrion, the latter possibly detrimental to offspring.
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
Paloski said the massasauga encountered could be a gravid female about to give birth.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Jay enlisted artist Lukas Geronimas to DJ after dinner, smoothing out what usually ends up as an ad hoc dance party with tipsy guests fighting over the aux cord while those too gravid with barbeque to dance sip ginger ale and watch.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar opened in early August, the week of the Sturgeon Moon, which is when the Algonquins believed the Great Lakes teemed with gravid fish.
—Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 27 Sep. 2017
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
Paloski said the massasauga encountered could be a gravid female about to give birth.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
Jay enlisted artist Lukas Geronimas to DJ after dinner, smoothing out what usually ends up as an ad hoc dance party with tipsy guests fighting over the aux cord while those too gravid with barbeque to dance sip ginger ale and watch.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2022
Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar opened in early August, the week of the Sturgeon Moon, which is when the Algonquins believed the Great Lakes teemed with gravid fish.
—Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 27 Sep. 2017
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“Gravid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravid. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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