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Gestation period

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  1. 1
    The average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant.

    "We have waited a very long time for the Railways Bill to see the light of day. The starting gun was fired as long ago as May 2021, when the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail was finally published, after its own gestation period of nearly three years."

  2. 2
    the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans) wordnet

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