multiparous
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
multiparous
- Having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
- Producing several offspring at one time.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]
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Translations
having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring
producing several offspring at one time
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