viviparous
Meaning of viviparous
adjective
- (of an animal) bringing forth live young which have developed inside the body of the parent.
- (of a plant) reproducing from buds which form plantlets while still attached to the parent plant, or from seeds which germinate within the fruit.
mid 17th century: from Latin viviparus (from vivus ‘alive’ + -parus ‘bearing’) + -ous.
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Hyphenation of viviparous
vi-vip-a-rous
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- viviparous is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
Translation of viviparous
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