parturient
[pahr-too r-ee-uh nt, -tyoo r-]
Origin of parturient
1585–95; < Latin parturient- (stem of parturiēns) being in labor, literally, desiring to bring forth (present participle of parturīre to be about to give birth), equivalent to part(us) (past participle of parere to bring forth, bear) + -uri- desiderative suffix + -ent- -ent
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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
Word Origin for parturient
C16: via Latin parturīre, from parere to bring forth
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parturient
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