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phoetal

phoetal is the obsolete 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

Questions about phoetal

What is phoetal the obsolete spelling of?
Phoetal is the obsolete spelling of fetal.

Words near phoetal in the dictionary

  1. phoenixings
  2. phoenixism
  3. phoenixity
  4. phoenixlike
  5. Phoenixville
  6. phoetal
  7. phoeti
  8. phoetus
  9. phoetuses
  10. phogocytosis
  11. phogrin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phoetal (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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