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

noun The period of development in the uterus from conception until birth; pregnancy.
noun The conception and development of a plan or an idea in the mind.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun A bearing or carrying; exercise by being carried.
noun The act or condition of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

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

noun obsolete The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
noun The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
noun Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.

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

noun The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
noun The process of development of a plan or idea.

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

noun the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)
noun the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
noun the conception and development of an idea or plan

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin gestātiō, gestātiōn-, from Latin, a carrying, from gestātus, past participle of gestāre, freqentative of gerere, to carry.]

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From Latin gestatio.

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This blog posting does not only link both to Frank's article in the Philadelphia Inquirer and to the comments facility the paper has set up, but also lists/links to all the previous Books, Inq. postings leading up to the article, so the gestation is archived in one place for any interested reader to track.

Writing Maxine 2009
MCCREADY: Well, during the first one the baby was still in I guess what they call gestation, so the doctor described it as it being an all or nothing effect that if the suicide attempt did have any effect on the child I would have lost the baby but I didn't.

CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2005 2005
An 18-year-old African-American couple was referred for their first pregnancy at 19 weeks gestational age for a monochorionic, diamniotic twin gestation complicated by severe Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome.

Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) 2010
Lesions with associated hydrops that are diagnosed late in gestation may benefit from resection using an Ex Utero Intrapartum Therapy (EXIT) approach.

Bronchopulmonary sequestration and Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid 2010
She was a 24-year-old mother with two prior children who was referred at 17 1/2 weeks gestation because of a monochorionic, diamniotic twin gestation complicated by TRAP sequence.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010
This edition of Frankenstein, in gestation for over fifteen years, provides the texts of both the

About This Edition 2010
This edition has been in gestation for some fifteen years, which in terms of electronic editions encompasses what in book production might be likened to several centuries.

Introduction 2010
It's not like boar gestation is more rapid than the time it takes to load and aim a gun.

but will the sea lions swim with you? 2008
The horrendous thought of a baby being aborted (and killed) for being "inconvenient" at a point in gestation when actually available medical intervention could save that baby for parents who really want it is something our society should definitely take a closer, more ethical look at.

14 Important Science Questions 2008
The horrendous thought of a baby being aborted (and killed) for being "inconvenient" at a point in gestation when actually available medical intervention could save that baby for parents who really want it is something our society should definitely take a closer, more ethical look at.

14 Important Science Questions 2008

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frindley commented on the word gestation

The frindley has completed a Wordie gestation. That is, nine months ago she added her first word to her first list. It was mediæval, with the ligature. Kind of says it all.

November 8, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word gestation

Well, mine was Lagerstätte...

November 8, 2008
bilby commented on the word gestation

pandemic.

November 8, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word gestation

Bilbies have a gestation of about 12–14 days, one of the shortest among mammals.
Little-known fact: The gestational period would take a little over a week, except for the ears. The bilby's ears slow down gestation considerably.

September 11, 2021
bilby commented on the word gestation

Fact check: we are indeed awesome.

September 12, 2021