Gravid

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɡɹavɪd/

Origin

From Latin gravidus ("laden, pregnant"), from gravis ("heavy").

Full definition of gravid

Adjective

1. Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
• 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud AtlasOne slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 568:The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.