gravid
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Gravid botfly females apparently catch mosquitos on the wing and then lay their eggs on the mosquito’s body.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2011
His brother William, who had five years previously described the same in his Anatomy of the Gravid Uterus, thereupon wrote to the Society attributing to himself this honour.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
Gravid females were collected in every breeding month except September.
From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by Jameson, E. W.
Gravid, grav′id, adj. heavy, esp. as being with child: pregnant.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Gravid females were found at the same locality on June 8, 1960, and June 23, 1962.
From A Review of the Frogs of the Hyla bistincta Group by Duellman, William E.
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