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BIRTHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of giving birth
Synonyms:
birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("birthing" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "birthing"):
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 contractions to the birth of a child)
Holonyms ("birthing" is a part of...):
reproduction (the process of generating offspring)
