No matter how many times I read this, I have no idea how gravid is supposed to feel like. From Wordnik.com. [Offer Your Seat Please… | Engrish.com] Reference
In the UK we use the term gravid for pregnant (or ready to lay eggs) snakes – maybe reptiles commute regularly in China. From Wordnik.com. [Offer Your Seat Please… | Engrish.com] Reference
The uterus appeared to be what we say is gravid, meaning that there had been a baby there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2008] Reference
JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug. From Wordnik.com. [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference
There was a pause, if not pregnant, at least gravid. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
There was little left of beauty in the gravid woman's face. From Wordnik.com. [DragonFlight]
I feel gravid – productive, full of promise and excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
Depends on the number of breeding-or gravid females up there. From Wordnik.com. [Time Scout]
Scene, twelfth century China: our stomachs swell with gravid void. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
Dissipate the first gravid thoughts pondered in so erratic a strain. From Wordnik.com. [Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2] Reference
She was fit and sleek, showing as yet no sign of her gravid condition. From Wordnik.com. [Juxtaposition]
A lowing cow cracked open the darkened room like the yawn of a gravid alien. From Wordnik.com. [The Clock Man's Trouble] Reference
A body thumped down beside Marika, a nomad female gravid but skeletally thin. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
Many of those taken are gravid females, which is disastrous for the populations. From Wordnik.com. [33 Green Iguana] Reference
And it was moving, dark and shining and gravid with a life I could only guess at. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
I wondered why his wife had donned armor and ridden to battle, gravid as she was. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
The most captivating was the one owned by a gravid female being courted by her suitor. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk] Reference
It lay in the palm of her hand, gravid with its promise of death, warm as a living thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
The uterus appeared to be what we say is gravid meaning that there had been a baby there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2008] Reference
And when my grandad looked up at the orange gravid moons of fall and said Now thet there is. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-23] Reference
Mithrax crab eggs are obtained from gravid females caught in the wild or grown in captivity. From Wordnik.com. [4 Coastal Mariculture] Reference
Pa thinks it is caused by a gravid uterus, and does not anticipate much relief for 3 months. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,] Reference
This kind of hurried spending is gravid with danger and will not abet the economic recovery. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Schram: How to End the Recession] Reference
She was absently rubbing her hand across her gravid stomach, as if to keep its contents calm. From Wordnik.com. [Grave Surprise]
She's a very gravid female, so in a little while we should have lots of little scorpions here. From Wordnik.com. [knives, guns, scorpions, party] Reference
She slowly dropped her hands, and they fell naturally, with fingers spread around gravid belly. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
The thing in his throat was curling into his belly, swelling, filling him with gravid blackness. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
Once every-one tensed as a large freight skid thrummed past just ahead of them, gravid with cargo. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Once everyone tensed as a large freight skid thrummed past just ahead of them, gravid with cargo. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
He put a deft hand under her barrel to support her and felt a rumbling purr vibrating through her gravid body. From Wordnik.com. [Damia's Children]
The mountain ranges of ice and rock moved and shifted in gravid tectonics, breaking and folding and splintering. From Wordnik.com. [Across The Sea Of Suns]
It was gravid and intimidating, and Duncan instinctively stumbled away from it until he bumped up against a tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
"You are gravid with the knowledge, and it will be born as soon as you approach the White Fountain sufficiently for you to be aware of it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
To the medical authors, the gravid woman's body contained excess substances that could harm the child, the most important being the menses. From Wordnik.com. [A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries] Reference
The accompanying illustration represents a hernia of the gravid womb through the linea alba. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
However, the most commonly used ovitrap, the CDC gravid trap, is not appropriate for capturing. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Each gravid female was placed singly in an oviposition cup holding a 10% glucose solution source. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
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