Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VI-VIP'AR-OUS
VI-VIP'AR-OUS, a. [L. vivus, alive, and pario, to bear.]
- Producing young in a living state, as all mammifers; as distinguished from oviparous, producing eggs, as fowls. If fowls were viviparous, it is difficult to see how the female would fly during pregnancy.
- In botany, producing its offspring alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; as, a viviparous plant. – Martyn.
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