Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gestation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gestation \Ges*ta"tion\, n. [L. gestatio a bearing, carrying,
fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to
bear: cf. F. gestation. See {Gest} deed, {Jest}.]
1. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]
2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to
delivery; pregnancy.
3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on
horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his
own powers; passive exercise. --Dunglison.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
gestation
n 1: the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days
in humans) [syn: {gestation period}]
2: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to
birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her
uterus [syn: {pregnancy}]
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