Meanings
- Having two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring.
- Producing several offspring at one time.
1 more example
It is not denied there have been bicipitous Serpents with the head at each extream, for an example hereof we finde in Aristotle, and of the like form in Aldrovandus we meet with the Icon of a Lizzard; which double formations do often happen unto multiparous generations, more especially that of Serpents […]
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinmultiparus
- Englishmultiparous
From Latin multiparus. By surface analysis, multi + parous.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Hungarian multipara, többször szült
- multiparahaving two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring
- többször szülthaving two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring
Icelandic fjölbyrja
- fjölbyrjahaving two or more pregnancies resulting in viable offspring
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multiparous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiparous
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