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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, characteristic of, or being a fetus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to, or having the character of, a fetus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective embryology Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to a fetus

Etymologies

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fetus +‎ -al

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