PAROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parous mean? 

• PAROUS (adjective)
  The adjective PAROUS has 1 sense:

1. having given birth to one or more viable children

  Familiarity information: PAROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having given birth to one or more viable children

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

parity ((obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered)

Derivation:

para ((obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered)

 Context examples 

The researchers found that the mammary glands of parous mice developed more quickly and showed signs of milk production earlier than those of non-parous mice.

(Mammary Gland May Have Epigenetic Memory, NIH)

The structure of the mammary gland is virtually identical in previously pregnant (or “parous”) and never-pregnant (non-parous) animals.

(Mammary Gland May Have Epigenetic Memory, NIH)