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None of the gobies reproduced in captivity, but some of the females were “gravid” — or full of eggs.

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Even more intriguing, the frog was clearly gravid, or pregnant with eggs.

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Relationship patterns among flightless stick insects suggest that birds disperse the eggs after eating gravid females.

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He saw in them gravid documents “created at the secret heart of this culture.”

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For beer I am avid, So my gut sticks out “gravid.”

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