to gestate

Examples

• All

• Both groups agree on the basic biological facts of gestating life, including the various stages of development from zygote to blastocyst, embryo, and fetus.

  Academic text (1990)

• One litter of approximately four to five young is suckled while the next brood is gestating.

  Academic text (2002)

• We can't make babies unless we have women to gestate them.

  Academic text (1998)

• Dolly and her mother gestated in different places.

  Academic text (1997)

• They breed in the fall and then they gestate during hibernation.

  Monster Grizzly (2023)

• She cradles her eggs in long arms for nine months, the same time it takes to gestate a human infant.

• Gestating and giving birth are dangerous physical pursuits, no matter how empowered a woman is.

  Blog text (9)

• We know this from really elegant working goats, showing that when a goat is gestating twins versus singletons, a lot more milk is produced.

  Harvard University

• In contemporary society, a fetus gestated inside the mother could not be shielded from harmful things like toxins, electromagnetic waves, and noise.

  Fiction book (2002)

• During pregnancy, a woman will gestate her child for nine months.

Synonyms

E

to expect

vsto gestate

816 3.0

To carry a baby before birth

refers to the biological state of developing an offspring rather than mere anticipation

C

to carry

vsto gestate

290 4.4

Be pregnant with a child or young animal

is a more formal or medical word for the same state

H

to have a bun in the oven

vsto gestate

• Informal

1 8.4

To be pregnant and expecting a baby

is a neutral formal medical expression rather than playful informal wording

How Developed

full term

4 3.3

advanced

65 5.1

to gestate

• Specialized

4 7.6

to conceive

103 6.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology