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Gravid with me in her ninth month, she’d thrashed as if possessed, and had to be pinned down to keep from lunging into an obliterative cocaine frenzy.

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

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The anesthesiologist discreetly put up a barrier, blocking our view of my gravid belly.

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

This has caused researchers to speculate that their eggs might be dispersed by birds feeding on gravid females, much in the same way as many plant species rely on birds eating their seeds together with fruits and dispersing them while the seeds pass through the digestive tracts of the birds unharmed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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