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parturient

[ pahr-toor-ee-uhnt, -tyoor- ]

adjective

  1. bearing or about to bear young; travailing.
  2. pertaining to parturition.
  3. bringing forth or about to produce something, as an idea.


parturient

/ pɑːˈtjʊərɪənt /

adjective

  1. of or relating to childbirth
  2. giving birth
  3. producing or about to produce a new idea, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • parˈturiency, noun
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Other Words From

  • par·turi·en·cy noun
  • postpar·turi·ent adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of parturient1

1585–95; < Latin parturient- (stem of parturiēns ) being in labor, literally, desiring to bring forth (present participle of parturīre to be about to give birth), equivalent to part ( us ) (past participle of parere to bring forth, bear) + -uri- desiderative suffix + -ent- -ent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of parturient1

C16: via Latin parturīre, from parere to bring forth
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Example Sentences

There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion.

This might be done by the force of certain external conditions operating upon the parturient system.

Applied to the breasts of parturient women it dries up the milk and in the same way tends to reduce any glandular enlargement.

In former years, puerperal fever took the lives of from five to fifty of each one hundred parturient mothers.

It was an Arab custom in certain places to build a hut outside the camp, where the parturient woman had to stay for a time.

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