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What does gestation mean?

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Noun
  1. The period of time during which an infant animal or human physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
  2. The process of development of a plan or idea.
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A 35-foot by 85-foot hoop building houses boars and the sows from weaning through midterm gestation.
Conception dates of hyena litters were calculated by subtracting the gestation period of 110 days from birthdates.
Women's case notes were examined to identify indication for karyotyping, gestation at diagnosis, and outcome of pregnancy.
Gray whale calves are born in the winter after a gestation period of about 13.5 months.
In contrast to moving from outdoors to neck tethers, moving from outdoors to indoor gestation pens or stalls did not inhibit litter size.
After what some would say has been a long gestation period, new Conservative policies have appeared.

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