Usually means: Period of development in womb.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestation: Merriam-Webster
  2. gestation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gestation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gestation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gestation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gestation, gestation: Wordnik
  7. gestation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gestation: Wiktionary
  9. gestation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gestation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gestation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gestation: Dictionary.com
  13. gestation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gestation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gestation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gestation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gestation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gestation: Rhymezone
  19. Gestation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gestation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gestation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gestation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gestation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gestation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Gestation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gestation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. gestation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gestation: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. Gestation: Diabetes Dictionary
  6. Gestation: MedFriendly Glossary
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  9. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  10. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  11. gestation: Medical dictionary
  12. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Gestation: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. gestation: Evolution Glossary
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
noun:  The process of development of a plan or idea.

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