How To Use Viviparous In A Sentence
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They exist in none but viviparous animals; though in some ovipara certain parts are metaphorically spoken of as horns, in virtue of a certain resemblance.
On the Parts of Animals
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Mature female scales are viviparous and produce 2-3 crawlers per day, totaling 100-150 over the female's lifetime.
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Here we selected a viviparous lizard Eremias multiocellata to test whether pregnant females could adjust the sex ratio of their offspring in response to OSR.
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Common reptile species include asp viper Vipera aspis, viviparous lizard Lacerta vivipara, wall lizard Podarcis muralis and the green lizard Lacerta viridis.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Along with the loss of heather and cottongrass, birds such as the nightjar, woodlark and stone curlew and animals including the adder, grass snake, and viviparous lizard have been put at risk.
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These may be viviparous, in which case the mother's body provides nourishment to the embryo, or ovoviviparous, in which case the eggs develop without additional nourishment inside the mother.
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Many of the instances of so-called viviparous plants, _e. g.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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All viviparous animals furnished with feet have hair; all oviparous animals furnished with feet have horn-like tessellates; fishes, and fishes only, have scales-that is, such oviparous fishes as have the crumbling egg or roe.
The History of Animals
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The most noteworthy species is the viviparous toad Nimbaphrynoides occidentalis (EN), which occurs in montane grasslands at 1,200-1,600 m and is one of the world's few tailless amphibians that is totally viviparous.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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All animals whatsoever, whether they fly or swim or walk upon dry land, whether they bring forth their young alive or in the egg, develop in the same way: save only that some have the navel attached to the womb, namely the viviparous animals, and some have it attached to the egg, and some to both parts alike, as in a certain sort of fishes.
The History of Animals
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Had it survived to birth it would have been about 1.8 metres in length, and about one and a half times as heavy (relative to parental weight) as the offspring of other viviparous species of the time.
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It has been suggested that the viviparity of the mangrove is a survival of a very remote period in the development of the earth -- that a mangrove swamp represents an age when the earth was enveloped in clouds and mist; and that with the gradual decrease in tepid aqueous vapour the viviparous habit, then almost universal, was lost, except in the case of this plant.
Confessions of a Beachcomber
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There are quite a lot of ichthyosaur fossils showing death during childbirth; they were viviparous.
New findings about the Hobbit - The Panda's Thumb
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Coenogonous: oviparous at one season of the year, ovoviviparous at another, as in Aphididae.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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Fusion of the chorion and allantois forms either the chorioallantoic placenta in viviparous (live-bearing) species, or the chorioallantoic membrane
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Over 20 oviparous specifically expressed genes were identified through screening the subtracted cDNA library enriched between oviparous and ovoviviparous
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
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These animals are ovoviviparous (producing eggs that develop and hatch within the female's body without obtaining nourishment from it).
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This species is ovoviviparous, meaning that the eggs develop within the female and the young are born alive.
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The viviparous species are by no means so prolific; yet the blenny brings forth two or three hundred at a time, which commence sporting together round their parent the moment they have come into existence.
The Book of Household Management
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Depending on environmental conditions, it can shift from viviparous to oviparous reproduction, with production of encysted and dehydrated embryos.
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Nectophrynoides viviparous (VU) occurs in the Uluguru and Udzungwa Mountains and in the Southern Highlands of eastern and southern Tanzania.
Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
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Several other features indicate that laticaudids are ‘primitive’ compared to the hydrophiids: they are generally better able to move on land, and they are mostly (but not entirely) oviparous (whereas hydrophiids are all viviparous).
Archive 2006-07-01
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I don't see that they'd be ovoviviparous ... too much weight for the mother if she had to carry her young for any length of time.
Cattle Town
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For no viviparous animal, be it apodous or be it possessed of feet, is so given to creep into holes as are the ovipara.
On the Parts of Animals
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Sharks are ovoviviparous -- that is, they bring forth living young instead of eggs.
Book Randomness Tag!
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Looks like a lizard, and it's only four inches long, but it's a real warm-blooded, gamogenetic, placental, viviparous mammal.
Omnilingual
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For no viviparous animal, be it apodous or be it possessed of feet, is so given to creep into holes as are the ovipara.
On the Parts of Animals
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In viviparous squamates, placental transfer of organic and inorganic nutrients is widespread, if not universal.
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Though the viper is viviparous (from which "vi-per" is derived), yet during gestation, the young are included in eggs, which break at the birth [Bochart]; however, metaphors often combine things without representing everything to the life.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Females are ovoviviparous, retaining yolked embryos without nourishing them.
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Like all surfperch, shiners are viviparous, that is, they do not lay eggs but bear live young.
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Sand tiger sharks are ovoviviparous (incubate eggs internally and offspring are born live).
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By this first nutriment thus prepared for the embryon is not meant the liquor amnii, which is produced afterwards, nor the larger exterior parts of the white of the egg; but the fluid prepared, I suppose, in the ovary of viviparous animals, and that which immediately surrounds the cicatricula of an impregnated egg, and is visible to the eye in a boiled one.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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They are in general oviparous, or egg-producing; but there are a few, such as the eel and the blenny, which are viviparous, or produce their young alive.
The Book of Household Management
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If only these creatures had been able to develop a viviparous capability, so that they could give birth to their babies at sea, they would have an assured future.
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This group also have oviparous and viviparous forms.
Reptile families
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It has been suggested that the viviparity of the mangrove is a survival of a very remote period in the development of the earth — that a mangrove swamp represents an age when the earth was enveloped in clouds and mist; and that with the gradual decrease in tepid aqueous vapour the viviparous habit, then almost universal, was lost, except in the case of this plant.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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These may be viviparous, in which case the mother's body provides nourishment to the embryo, or ovoviviparous, in which case the eggs develop without additional nourishment inside the mother.
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= -- The formation of little bulbs upon the surfaces or edges of leaves, forming what are called viviparous leaves, has long been familiar to botanists amongst Alliums.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Here, many years to come and go Altay rare Rana , viviparous lizards, albino bear ...There's fantastic and horrible Kanas Lake strange, my God!
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There are only a few offspring at a time, and, although there are exceptional cases like the summer green-flies, which are very prolific though viviparous, the general rule is that viviparity is associated with a very small family.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
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Was very quick (took literally half an hour for 700 words) even though I had to re-write a few bits that were simply wrong (saying, for instance, that a "seagull gave birth and knowing it was going to die etc." when sea gulls are most definitely oviparous and not viviparous).
Breakfast in Bed
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The fruits or persistent pericarps of breeding seedlings during the viviparous developing were rich in the salt and this may do favorable to adaptation of seedlings to highly saline environment.
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In the ovipara, again, it is low in fish (as in women and the viviparous quadrupeds), high in birds and all oviparous quadrupeds.
On the Generation of Animals
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I counted as a female those whose vitellaria or ovaries I had seen or those whom I had seen carrying or laying eggs or live embryos (some are viviparous).
Archive 2009-01-01
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The interlacing forest and grassland provide a variety of habitats with an unusually rich flora and fauna, including unique endemic species such as viviparous toads.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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Along with the loss of heather and cottongrass, birds such as the nightjar, woodlark and stone curlew and animals including the adder, grass snake, and viviparous lizard have been put at risk.
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The types of vipers that are ovoviviparous include Bitis, Echis carinatus, and most Vipera.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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The beginnings of a transition from oviparous to viviparous reproduction.
The platypus genome
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The viviparous quadrupeds - literally means four-footed mammals bearing living offspring.
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Such as are viviparous are hair-coated, and such as are oviparous are covered with a kind of tessellated hard substance; and the tessellated bits of this substance are, as it were, similar in regard to position to a scale.
The History of Animals
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Females are viviparous and give birth to a single litter of up to five offspring.
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To suppose the eggs of the former microscopic animals to float in the atmosphere, and pass through the sealed glass phial, is so contrary to apparent nature, as to be totally incredible! and as the latter are viviparous, it is equally absurd to suppose, that their parents float universally in the atmosphere to lay their young in paste or vinegar!
Note I
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It has an especially rich flora and fauna, with endemic species such as the viviparous toad and is known as a centre of plant diversity.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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Depending on environmental conditions, it can shift from viviparous to oviparous reproduction, with production of encysted and dehydrated embryos.
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This could of course, be asked about any number of viviparous humanoids.
