test-tube baby

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noun

an infant developed from an ovum fertilized in vitro and implanted into a woman's uterus, usually that of the biological mother.

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Origin of test-tube baby

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby test-tube baby

test pattern, test pilot, test stand, test statistic, test tube, test-tube baby, test-tube skin, testudinal, testudinate, testudo, testy

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How to use test-tube baby in a sentence

How about baby drama with little Abijean and the Wee Baby Seamus?
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He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
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The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.
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The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
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Three months ago, the two had a baby together and the Internet mostly just shrugged.
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Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
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Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
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She had carried the baby over to Juana's and left her there, that she might be free to serve the Father's supper.
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The most promising of the methods which have been devised are cryoscopy, the methylene-blue test, and the phloridzin test.
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British Dictionary definitions for test-tube baby

test-tube baby

noun

a fetus that has developed from an ovum fertilized in an artificial womb

a baby conceived by artificial insemination

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