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Viviparous   /vaɪvˈɪpərəs/   Listen
Viviparous

adjective
1.
Producing living young (not eggs).  Synonym: live-bearing.



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"Viviparous" Quotes from Famous Books



... In most viviparous animals the embryo is developed in almost or absolutely total darkness, yet when it is born it has bright colors. Kerbert has found in the cutis of the embryonic chick, about the fifteenth day, certain pigment-cells. These cells ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir

... pages on fishes are delightful reading. The anatomist may read of such recondite matters as the placenta vitellina of the smooth dog-fish, whereby the viviparous embryo is nourished within the womb, after a fashion analogous to that of mammalian embryology—a phenomenon brought to light anew by Johannes Müller, and which excited him to enthusiastic admiration of Aristotle's minute and faithful anatomy. Again ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various



Words linked to "Viviparous" :   oviparous, ovoviviparous, zoology, zoological science



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