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superfoetation

superfoetation is the alternative spelling of superfetation.

Meaning of superfetation

Noun

superfetation (countable and uncountable, plural superfetations)

  1. The formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
  2. An excessive accumulation; a superfluous addition.
    • These gentlemen were greatly astonished at Bovary's romantic ideas, and the pharmacist hurried in to say to him: "This velvet looks to me rather a superfetation. Besides, the expense..."1992, Geoffrey Wall, translator of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Forms of superfoetation

pluralsuperfoetations

Questions about superfoetation

What is superfoetation the alternative spelling of?
Superfoetation is the alternative spelling of superfetation.

Words near superfoetation in the dictionary

  1. superfocusing
  2. superfoetate
  3. superfoetated
  4. superfoetates
  5. superfoetating
  6. superfoetation
  7. superfoetations
  8. superfog
  9. superfogs
  10. superfold
  11. superfolded

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