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Bearing living young
Answer for the clue "Bearing living young ", 10 letters:
viviparous
Word definitions for viviparous in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of an animal or animal species English) Being born alive, as are most mammals, some reptiles, and a few fish (as opposed to being laid as an egg and subsequently hatching, as do most birds and many other species). 2 (context of a plant or ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. producing living young (not eggs) [ant: oviparous , ovoviviparous ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Late Latin viviparus "bringing forth alive," from Latin vivus "alive, living" (see vivid ) + parere "bring forth, bear" (see pare ). See viper .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viviparous \Vi*vip"a*rous\, a. [L. viviparus; vivus alive + parere to bear, bring forth. Cf. Viper .] (Biol.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, ...
Usage examples of viviparous.
Viviparous, creatures are a kind of specie-paying lot, but oviparous ones only give their notes, as it were, for a future brood,--an egg being, so to speak, a promise to pay a young one by and by, if nothing happen.
In other respects they are warm-blooded, viviparous mammals, destitute of hinder limbs, and with very short fore-limbs completely enclosed in skin, but having the usual number of bones, though very much shortened, forming a kind of fin.
It would be a brilliant forgery, done in a nonbiological medium, of a living creature, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Primates, viviparous, bipedal, and having a bicameral brain—.
Looks like a lizard, and it's only four inches long, but it's a real warm-blooded, gamogenetic, placental, viviparous mammal.