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Bearing living young
Answer for the clue "Bearing living young ", 10 letters:
viviparous
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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 ...
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, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. producing living young (not eggs) [ant: oviparous , ovoviviparous ]
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.