gestation

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 jĕstāshən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born. countable,uncountable
  2. The process of development of a plan or idea. countable,uncountable
    — It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.

词形变化

gestations plural

词汇关系

近义词
pregnancy
衍生词
gestational gestation period midgestation multigestation pregestation uterogestation

词源

Etymology tree
Latin gestāre
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin gestātiōlbor.
English gestation
Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.
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