gravid
Example Sentences
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None of the gobies reproduced in captivity, but some of the females were “gravid” — or full of eggs.
From Los Angeles Times
Even more intriguing, the frog was clearly gravid, or pregnant with eggs.
From Salon
Relationship patterns among flightless stick insects suggest that birds disperse the eggs after eating gravid females.
From Science Daily
He saw in them gravid documents “created at the secret heart of this culture.”
From New York Times
The air over their heads churned and darkened, a cloud coalescing out of nowhere, gray and dense and gravid with rain.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
