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Parturition definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PARTURI'TION, n. [L. parturio.] The act of bringing forth or being delivered of young.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Late Latin parturition-, parturitio, from Latin parturire Date: 1646 the action or process of giving birth to offspring

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. formal the act of bringing forth young; childbirth. Etymology: LL parturitio (as PARTURIENT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Parturition Par`tu*ri"tion, n. [L. parturitio, fr. parturire: cf. F. parturition. See Parturient.] 1. The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth. 2. That which is brought forth; a birth. [Obs.]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Delivery, labor, travail, child-birth, bringing forth, birth.

Moby Thesaurus

accouchement, babyhood, bearing, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth