vivíparo

See also: viviparo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vīviparus.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈvi.pa.ɾu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈvi.pa.ɾo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈvi.pɐ.ɾu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /biˈbi.pɐ.ɾu/ [biˈβi.pɐ.ɾu]

Hyphenation: vi‧ví‧pa‧ro

Adjective

vivíparo (feminine vivípara, masculine plural vivíparos, feminine plural vivíparas)

(botany, of a plant) viviparous (arising from an embryo that develops from the outset)
(zoology, of an animal) viviparous (whose development occurs inside the body of the mother)

Noun

vivíparo m (plural vivíparos)

a viviparous animal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīviparus.

Adjective

vivíparo (feminine vivípara, masculine plural vivíparos, feminine plural vivíparas)

viviparous

Further reading

“vivíparo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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