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Parturient definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PARTU'RIENT, a. [L. parturiens.] Bringing forth or about to bring forth young.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to or giving birth; "parturient pangs"; "the parturient uterus"
2: giving birth; "a parturient heifer"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Latin parturient-, parturiens, present participle of parturire to be in labor, from parere to give birth to — more at pare Date: 1592 1. bringing forth or about to bring forth young 2. of or relating to parturition II. noun Date: 1947 a parturient individual

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. about to give birth. Etymology: L parturire be in labour, incept. f. parere part- bring forth

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Parturient Par*tu"ri*ent, a. [L. parturiens, p. pr. of parturire to desire to bring forth, fr. parere, partum, to bring forth. See Parent.] Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. --Jer. Tailor.

Moby Thesaurus

abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, anticipating, autochthonous, beginning, big, big with child, big-laden, breeding, budding, carrying, carrying a fetus, creative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, expectant, expecting, fetal, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestating, gestatory, gone, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, knocked up, nascent, natal, original, postnatal, preggers, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, rudimental, rudimentary, superfetate, superimpregnated, teeming, ur, with child