PUERPERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puerpera mean? 

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

1. a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUERPERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))

Derivation:

puerperal (relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth)