superfetation

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
21
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/suːpəfəˈteɪʃən/

Definition of superfetation

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
  2. (countable, uncountable)An excessive accumulation; a superfluous addition.
    “1992, Geoffrey Wall, translator of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary 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..."”

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Etymology

From Latin superfetare (“conceive while pregnant”), from super- + fetus.

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