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Gavid vs Gravid - What's the difference?

gavid | gravid |

As a noun gavid

is (zoology) any member of the gavidae.

As an adjective gravid is

pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.

gavid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the Gavidae.

    • gravid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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 Atlas
    • One 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.