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PARTURITION

• PARTURITION (noun)
The noun PARTURITION has 1 sense:

1. the process of giving birth

Familiarity information: PARTURITION used as a noun is very rare.

• PARTURITION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The process of giving birth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

birthing; giving birth; parturition; birth

Hypernyms ("parturition" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parturition"):

brooding; incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)

calving (giving birth to a calf)

accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)

farrow; farrowing (the production of a litter of pigs)

hatch; hatching (the production of young from an egg)

egg laying; laying (the production of eggs (especially in birds))

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of labor to the birth of a child)

Holonyms ("parturition" is a part of...):

reproduction (the process of generating offspring)

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(Dutch proverb)

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