Usually means: Carries and develops embryo internally.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestates: Merriam-Webster
  2. gestates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gestates: Vocabulary.com
  4. gestates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. gestates: Wiktionary
  6. gestates: Dictionary.com
  7. gestates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gestates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gestates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See gestate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gestate)

verb:  (intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
verb:  (by extension, intransitive) To develop an idea.
▸ Also see gestate


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