parturient
- bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
- pertaining to parturition.
- bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.
Origin of parturient
Related Words for parturient
abundant, big, enceinte, expectant, expecting, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, gravid, heavy, hopeful, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, anticipating, parous, preggersExamples from the Web for parturient
Historical Examples of parturient
It is called dropping after calving, from its following the parturient state.
Cattle and Their DiseasesRobert Jennings
There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion.
Parturient women under such circumstances occasionally succumb to the typhoid condition into which they are thrown.
It must be confessed that they have not wholly escaped the fate that is apt to befall the progeny of parturient mountains.
Pot-BoilersClive Bell
The foal rarely survives four hours after the onset of parturient throes.
Special Report on Diseases of the HorseUnited States Department of Agriculture
parturient
- of or relating to childbirth
- giving birth
- producing or about to produce a new idea, etc
Word Origin for parturient
Word Origin and History for parturient
"about to give birth," 1590s, from Latin parturientem (nominative parturiens), present participle of parturire "be in labor," literally "desire to bring forth," desiderative of parere "to bear" (see pare). Related: Parturiency.
parturient
(pär-tur′ē-ənt)- Of or relating to giving birth.
- About to bring forth young; being in labor.