Crossword-Solution: VIVIPAROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Viviparous | a. | 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. |
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| Bearing living young | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise;
as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
Hint 2 anagram
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Move
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Sentences with VIVIPAROUS (5)
Johnson now began to recommend other branches of science, when he found languages at such an immeasurable distance, and advising him to study natural history, there arose some talk about animals, and their divisions into oviparous and 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.
Does not some Yankee say that the American viviparous aphides are winged? I am particularly glad that you are ruminating on the act of fertilisation: it has long seemed to me the most wonderful and curious of physiological problems.
Broadly speaking, they fall first into two groups: the older cyclostoma, the earliest fishes, most of the amphibia, and the viviparous mammals, have holoblastic ova--that is to say, ova with total, unequal segmentation; while the younger cyclostoma, most of the fishes, the cephalopods, reptiles, birds, and monotremes, have meroblastic ova, or ova with partial discoid segmentation.
But the corresponding embryonic processes in the viviparous mammals, the marsupials and placentals, are very elaborate and distinctive.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).