viva-, vivi-, vivo-, viv- +

Characterized by forming distinct, lifelike, and striking mental images.

1. The production of a strong, or clear, impression on the senses.
2. The development of interest, variety, and intensity.

Giving life; reviving; enlivening.

1. To give life to; to animate; to revive; to vivify.
2. In chemistry, to bring back a metal to the metallic form, as from an oxide or solution; to reduce.

1. Having the quality of being active, spirited, or alive and vigorous.
2. The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.
3. Trimming of the surface layer of a wound to aid the union of tissues.
4. Transformation of protein through assimilation into the living matter of cellular organisms.

Able or tending to vivify, animate, or give life; vivifying.

1. Someone, or something, that makes a situation more striking or animated.
2. That which gives new life, or energy, to something.

1. To cause someone, or something, to come to life.
2. To give liveliness, or vividness, to something.
3. To make more lively, intense, or striking; to enliven.

The condition of being viviparous or the ability to produce living young rather than producing young by laying an egg, or eggs, and then having it/them hatch.

1. Giving birth to living offspring that develop within the mother's body.

Most mammals and some other animals are viviparous.

2. Giving birth to living young which develop within the maternal body; not hatched from external eggs.
3. Giving birth to living young, in distinction to oviparous, or egg-laying.
4. A description of a plant with seeds that germinate and develop into seedlings before being shed from the parent plant; such as, a mangrove.

Relating to having embryonic development which occurs entirely within the female reproductive tract.

Bringing forth live young which have developed inside the body of a parent.

Nourishment of the embryo is derived directly from the mother, and the young are released at birth.

Producing live young from the body.

A reproductive process in which the conceptus is sustained and nourished within the body of the maternal animal.

Observation of the vital processes in an organism without the aid of vivisection.