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foetal

foetal is the alternative spelling of fetal.

Meaning of fetal

Adjective

fetal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
    • fetal circulation
  2. (informal) In the fetal position.
    • I was fetal on my left side, unable to move. My legs fell off my queen-sized bed and were propped up by a rocking chair.2000, Eben Carlson, The Love Artist

Origin of foetal

From foetus + -al, the former from Latin foetus, alternative form of fētus, and the latter from Latin -alis.

Words formed from foetal

Phrases with foetal

Questions about foetal

What is foetal the alternative spelling of?
Foetal is the alternative spelling of fetal.

Words near foetal in the dictionary

  1. Foersters
  2. Foertsch
  3. Foertsches
  4. foes
  5. foeship
  6. foetal
  7. foetal alcohol syndrome
  8. foetal alcohol syndromes
  9. foetalism
  10. foetalization
  11. foetally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foetal (page history and authors); fetal (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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