word of the day: gravid

The word of the day is gravid:

Etymology:  < Latin gravidus, < gravis burdened, heavy (see grave adj.¹, grave n.¹ Compare French gravide.

Pregnant, heavy with young.

"Never fear.  I know the difference between
arteries and ardor, arbor and treed,
my bower and a weak-kneed need, a harbor
where one might moor tonight and a port worth
the oars' effort to come ashore for, a bit
part and the serpent's gravid apple."

 - Dora Malech, "To the you of ten years ago, now", 6 May 2013 The New Yorker