gestationEnglishOxford American Thesaurusgestation noun 1 tree shrews give birth after a gestation of thirty days: pregnancy, development, incubation, maturation, ripening; rare gravidity, parturiency. 2 the law underwent a long period of gestation: development, origination, drafting, formation, evolution, emergence, coming into being, materializing.
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