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fœtûs

fœtûs is the plural of fœtus.

Meaning of fœtus

Noun

fœtus (plural fœtuses or fœtus or (rare) fœtûs or (hypercorrect) fœti)

  1. Dated spelling of foetus.
    • The progress of the fœtus appears to be much quicker in the early than latter months: but the proportional increase is attended with difficulty in the calculation; for this, among other reasons, that we have not an opportunity of knowing the magnitude or weight of the same fœtus in different months.1784, Charles Elliot, A system of anatomy: from Monro, Winslow, Innes, and the latest authers

Origin of fœtûs

From Latin foetūs, plural of foetus.

Questions about fœtûs

What is fœtûs the plural of?
Fœtûs is the plural of fœtus.

Words near fœtûs in the dictionary

  1. fœtid
  2. fœtor
  3. fœtors
  4. fœtus
  5. fœtuses
  6. fœtûs
  7. Fūjin
  8. f—d
  9. f—g
  10. f—k
  11. f—ked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fœtûs (page history and authors); fœtus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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