(a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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