PUERPERA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))

Derivation:

puerperal (relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth)