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Gestation

//d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the conception and development of an idea or plan wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of development of a plan or idea. countable, uncountable

    "It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his."

  4. 4
    the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus wordnet
  5. 5
    the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.

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