GESTATION PERIOD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)

Synonyms:

gestation; gestation period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("gestation period" is a kind of...):

biological time (the time of various biological processes)

Meronyms (parts of "gestation period"):

full term; term (the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent)

midterm (the middle of the gestation period)

trimester (a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided)