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Definition of Superfetate
1. Verb. Conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus.
Definition of Superfetate
1. v. i. To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring.
Definition of Superfetate
1. Verb. To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superfetate
Literary usage of Superfetate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"... see superfetate.'} 1. A second conception some time after a prior one, by
which two fetuses of different age exist together in the same female : often ..."
2. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus (1862)
"The hare, for instance, which is hunted alike by beasts, birds, and men, breeds
so abundantly as even to superfetate,1 a thing which is true of no other ..."
3. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus (1875)
"The hare, for instance, which is hunted alike by beasts, birds, and men, breeds
so abundantly as even to superfetate,1 a thing which is true of no other ..."
4. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1889)
"... dantly as even to superfetate,1 a thing which is true of no other animal.
You find in a hare's belly, at one and the same time, some of the young all ..."
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