gestation
noun
the process, state, or period of gestating.
gestations
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pluralof gestation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Potentially, those gestations that would have ended in fetal death in 2021 were born alive in 2022 and then died shortly after,” Ms. Gemmill said in an interview.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
For one, it works best with species that have big litters and short gestations, Quimon points out.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2021
But we don’t know how those powers, or the rules of the “town” where Wanda and Vision are apparently trapped, affected the gestations of their children.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2021
Clothes and show and conversation were like one big work in progress; the gestations of ideas not yet fully realized, but introduced to the world nonetheless.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
With one thousand and thirty one cows, whose gestations were carefully observed in France, the average period was about two hundred and eighty-five days.
From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Robert Jennings
