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superfetes

superfetes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of superfete.

Meaning of superfete

Verb

superfete (third-person singular simple present superfetes, present participle superfeting, simple past and past participle superfeted)

  1. (obsolete) To conceive (another fetus) after a former conception.
    • It makes me pregnant and to superfete1655, James Howell, “The Vote, or a Poem Royal”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […]...

Questions about superfetes

What is superfetes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Superfetes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of superfete.

Words near superfetes in the dictionary

  1. superfetation
  2. superfetations
  3. superfetatious
  4. superfete
  5. superfeted
  6. superfetes
  7. superfeting
  8. superfibronectin
  9. superfice
  10. superfices
  11. superficial

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