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单词 uniparous
释义
uniparous
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adj

An animal that only gives birth to one baby at a time, like an elephant, can be described as uniparous.
Human beings are usually uniparous, though they occasionally have twins, triplets, or even more babies at once. You're most likely to come across a description of an animal as uniparous in a zoology class, although it's sometimes used to describe a woman who has only had one child in her lifetime. In either case, the prefix uni, or "one" in Latin, gives a clue to the word's meaning. Parous comes from the Latin parere, "to produce or bring forth."
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uniparous
USAGE EXAMPLES
The cyme, according to its development, has been characterized as biparous or uniparous.
Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011)
adj producing only one offspring at a time
Ant
multiparous
producing more than one offspring at a time
biparous, twinning
producing two offspring at a time
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