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gestation period

gestation period noun: the average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant.

Noun

gestation period (plural gestation periods)

  1. The average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant.
    • We have waited a very long time for the Railways Bill to see the light of day. The starting gun was fired as long ago as May 2021, when the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail was finally published, after its own gestation period of nearly three years.2025 November 26, Sir Michael Holden, “Good and bad in the Bill”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 15

gestation period meaning in Tamil and Kannada

gestation period in Tamil

கருவளர் காலம், கர்ப்ப காலம், கருத்தங்குகாலம், கருத்தங்கற்காலம், சூற்காலம், சூல்நிலை

gestation period in Kannada

ಗರ್ಭಕಾಲ

Forms of gestation period

pluralgestation periods

Questions about gestation period

What does gestation period mean?
Gestation period means the average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant.
What is gestation period in Tamil?
Gestation period in Tamil is கருவளர் காலம், கர்ப்ப காலம், கருத்தங்குகாலம். See Gestation period meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gestation period?
Gestation period is a noun.
What is the plural of gestation period?
The plural of gestation period is gestation periods.

Words near gestation period in the dictionary

  1. gestates
  2. gestating
  3. gestation
  4. gestation crate
  5. gestation crates
  6. gestation period
  7. gestation periods
  8. gestation sac
  9. gestation sacs
  10. gestational
  11. gestational diabetes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gestation period (page history and authors); gestation period (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gestation period (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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