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Definition of Gestates
1. gestate [v] - See also: gestate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gestates
Literary usage of Gestates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Woman's Medical Journal (1900)
"The functional activity of the uterus gestates a fertilized ovum, and initiates
the life of a new being, hungry the moment ..."
2. The Congregational Quarterly by American Congregational Union, Joseph Sylvester Clark, American Congregational Association, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham (1876)
"... but its interior organization is entirely different, — it breathes by lungs
and not by gills ; it gestates and suckles its young: it is, therefore, ..."
3. Cattle and Dairy Farming by United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1888)
"It comes to maturity in the fourth year, and gestates once in eighteen months
thereafter, producing eight or nine calves in a life-time, which is about ..."
4. Cattle and Dairy Farming by United States Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1888)
"It comes to maturity in the fourth year, and gestates once in eighteen months
thereafter, producing eight or nine calves in a life-time, which is about ..."
5. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1900)
"In devotion gestates Wisdom, purity nurses Power, and Justice springs from sacrifice.
Such is devotion. They who taste its nectar feel more thirsty the more ..."
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