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viviparous
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, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
Viviparous fish. (Zo["o]l.) See Embiotocoid.
Viviparous shell (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of operculated fresh-water gastropods belonging to Viviparus, Melantho, and allied genera. Their young, when born, have a well-developed spiral shell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 plant species English) Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates).
WordNet
adj. producing living young (not eggs) [ant: oviparous, ovoviviparous]
Wikipedia
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.