Parturient

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Parturient \Par*tu"ri*ent\, a. [L. parturiens, p. pr. of
     parturire to desire to bring forth, fr. parere, partum, to
     bring forth. See {Parent}.]
     Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.
     --Jer. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  parturient
       adj 1: of or relating to or giving birth; "parturient pangs"; "the
              parturient uterus"
       2: giving birth; "a parturient heifer" [syn: {in labor(p)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "parturient":
     abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, anticipating, autochthonous,
     beginning, big, big with child, big-laden, breeding, budding,
     carrying, carrying a fetus, creative, elemental, elementary,
     embryonic, expectant, expecting, fetal, formative, foundational,
     fundamental, gestating, gestatory, gone, gravid, great, heavy,
     heavy with child, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural,
     inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant,
     infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory,
     inventive, knocked up, nascent, natal, original, postnatal,
     preggers, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval,
     primitive, primogenial, procreative, rudimental, rudimentary,
     superfetate, superimpregnated, teeming, ur, with child