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noun

Gestation n.

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). (Obs.)

The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.

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Etymology of 'Gestation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gestation" Quotes from Famous Books

... kangaroo is to be classed I leave to better naturalists than myself to determine. How it copulates, those who pretend to have seen disagree in their accounts: nor do we know how long the period of gestation lasts. Prolific it cannot be termed, bringing forth only one at a birth, which the dam carries in her pouch wherever she goes until the young one be enabled to provide for itself; and even then, in the moment of alarm, she will stop to receive and protect it. We have ...

— A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson • Watkin Tench

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