parous

1. 1.

   having given birth to one or more viable children

Other forms of parous

comparative

parouser·

superlative

parousest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about parous

What does parous mean?

parous means "having given birth to one or more viable children".

How many syllables are in parous?

parous has 2 syllables: pa-rous. The stress falls on "pa".

Is parous a common word?

parous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.