Viviparous
[vɪ'vɪp(ə)rəs;vaɪ-] or [vɪ'vɪpərəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
錄入:露西
解釋/意思:
adj. producing young alive: (bot.) germinating from a seed still on the parent plant.—ns. Vīvipar′ity Vīvip′arousness.—adv. Vīvip′arously.
錄入:泽维尔