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GESTATION PERIOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)
Synonyms:
gestation; gestation period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("gestation period" is a kind of...):
biological time (the time of various biological processes)
Meronyms (parts of "gestation period"):
full term; term (the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent)
midterm (the middle of the gestation period)
trimester (a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided)
