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    PARTURITION

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The process of giving birthplay

    Synonyms:

    birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural processes

    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 contractions to the birth of a child)

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

    reproduction (the process of generating offspring)

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