superfetates

Verb

superfetate (third-person singular simple present superfetates, present participle superfetating, simple past and past participle superfetated)

1. To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring.
   • The hare, for instance, which is hunted alike by beasts, birds, and men, breeds so abundantly as even to superfetate, a thing which is true of no other animal. You find in a hare's belly, at one and the same time, some of the young all covered with fur, others quite naked, others again just fully...1910, Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson, The History of Herodotus, Book 3