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
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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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