Multiparous

//mʌlˈtɪpəɹəs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
  2. 2
    Producing several offspring at one time.

    "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 […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    producing more than one offspring at a time wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
biparousgerminalpluriparouspluriparousprocreativereproductive

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"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 […]"

Etymology

From multi- + -parous.

Related phrases

great grand multiparous

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