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parturition

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CIDE DICTIONARY

parturitionn. [L. parturitio, fr. parturire: cf. F. parturition. See Parturient.].
  •  The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which is brought forth; a birth.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parturition, n. formal the act of bringing forth young; childbirth.

Etymology
LL parturitio (as PARTURIENT)

THESAURUS

parturition

accouchement, babyhood, bearing, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth

ROGET THESAURUS

parturition

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.


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