Citations:give birth

Noun: "to release live offspring into the environment"

 * 1915 Surgery, gynecology & obstetrics, Volume 21, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation, p660
 * She gave birth to an eleven-and-a-half-pound child six hours after the beginning of labor.
 * 1981 "How British peach-potato aphids manage without males," New Scientist, Vol. 91, No. 1269 (3 Sep 1981), p603
 * As the days shorten, most species of aphid start to produced winged male and female forms. These fly back to their primary hosts, where the females give birth to egg-laying females.
 * 2001 Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World, Marshall Cavendish, p1352
 * Perhaps the most distinct group of fish found in central Mexico, these fish give birth to live young, as opposed to the typical egg-laying reproductive habits of most fish species.
 * 2005 J. Whitfield Gibbons & Michael E. Dorcas, Snakes of the Southeast, University of Georgia Press, p23
 * Because eggs hatch and live-bearing snakes give birth during late summer and fall, however, more snakes are present and likely to be seen aboveground then.
 * 2007 George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer & Stephen H. Vessey, Mammalogy: adaptation, diversity, ecology, p151
 * Many mammals give birth to their young during the resting or sleep portion of their daily cycle.