Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bring forth young.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To bring forth young.

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  • verb obsolete, intransitive To bring forth young.

Etymologies

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See parturient.

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Examples

  • In the city many of these divergent types now find a milieu in which for good or for ill their dispositions and talents parturiate and bear fruit.

    Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

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