gravid

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Latin gravō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin gravidusder. English gravid From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

1. Pregnant.

   “In vast state incubators, rows upon rows of gravid bottles will supply the world with the population it requires. The family system will disappear; society, sapped at its very base, will have to find new foundations; and Eros, beautifully and irresponsibly free, will flit like a gay butterfly from flower to flower through a sunlit world.”

   “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”