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What does viviparous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of an animal or animal species) Being born alive, as are most mammals, some reptiles, and a few fish (as opposed to being laid as an egg and subsequently hatching, as do most birds and many other species).
  2. (of a plant or plant species) Arising from an embryo that develops from the outset (rather than from a true seed that then germinates).
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In viviparous squamates, placental transfer of organic and inorganic nutrients is widespread, if not universal.
Unusual among the ground sharks, the false catshark is viviparous with the developing embryos practicing intrauterine oophagy.
In glasshouses aphid population always consists of viviparous females. Young aphids are born and immediately start feeding on plant sap.
Ichthyosaurs and other contemporary viviparous species, by contrast, gave birth to multiple offspring.
Like all surfperch, shiners are viviparous, that is, they do not lay eggs but bear live young.
Females are viviparous and give birth to a single litter of up to five offspring.

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