gravid

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin gravidus (“laden, pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).

100, enlarged; a, gravid female, natural size). — Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
It was no man's job to hang around a gravid woman all the time, holding her hand. — Changeling, and Other Stories, Donn Byrne
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 countrystile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature and the injunction upon her in the event of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to place her hand against that part of her person which long usage has consecrated as the seat of castigation. — Ulysses, James Joyce

big, enceinte, expectant, great, large, heavy, with child

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