PARTURITION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The process of giving birth

Synonyms:

birth; birthing; giving birth; parturition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("parturition" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parturition"):

brooding; incubation (sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body)

calving (giving birth to a calf)

accouchement; childbearing; childbirth; vaginal birth (the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child)

farrow; farrowing (the production of a litter of pigs)

hatch; hatching (the production of young from an egg)

egg laying; laying (the production of eggs (especially in birds))

childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency; travail (concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child)

Holonyms ("parturition" is a part of...):

reproduction (the process of generating offspring)