| -parous | |
| —adj combining form | |
| giving birth to: oviparous | |
| [from Latin -parus, from parere to bring forth] | |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
-parous suff.
Giving birth to; producing: multiparous.