Crossword clues for gravid
gravid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gravid \Grav"id\, a. [L. gravidus, fr. gravis heavy, loaded. See
Grave, a.]
Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a
gravid uterus; gravid piety; -- of animals as well as people.
`` His gravid associate.''
--Sir T. Herbert.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pregnant," 1590s, from Latin gravidus "loaded; pregnant," from gravis "burdened, heavy" (see grave (adj.)). Gravidation "pregnancy" is attested from mid-15c.
Wiktionary
a. pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gravid".
And now, waiting beneath the grey, gravid sky, there was a foreboding that recalled his deepest memories, distant childhood images of chilled teeth, bewilderment, and dread.
I and your other friends have bruited it about that your condition has rendered you capricious as is common to gravid women.
They basked and swam in plasma-soupy primordial seas gravid with life to come.
What he was searching for were cowpies crusted over but still gravid with nutrients-the fertile mound of creation for the mushroom.
One had a calf at heel while the other was full-bellied and gravid.
He was a portly man, aslop with coffee, gravid with Danish pastry.
It had gone on to describe the disadvantages of possessing two hearts, especially when the possessor was a gravid female-mode Hudlar nearing parturition, and the nerve network which controlled the involuntary muscle system was maintaining a delicate balance between the impulses to four hearts, two parental and two embryonic.
He even went to the extreme of getting Damia's solemn promise to be extra careful of her mother in her gravid state, a promise which the child carried out faithfully until the Rowan shrieked at her one day as she attempted to serve breakfast in bed.
Honeyed sunlight filtered through smooth, curving tri-palm trees, the undersides of their deep green fronds gravid with nut-brown fruit.