Crossword clues for gestate
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, back-formation from gestation. Related: Gestated; gestating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery. 2 (context by analogy English) To develop an ide
WordNet
v. have the idea for; "He conceived of a robot that would help paralyzed patients"; "This library was well conceived" [syn: conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise]
be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child" [syn: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, expect]
Usage examples of "gestate".
Paul had worried about leaving while his offspring were still gestating but Hidey had pointed out, quite reasonably, that there was really nothing for him to do until they were born.
As long as the women stayed healthy and drug-free, and agreed to be monitored on a daily basis, they were good enough to serve as human incubators for the vastly superior beings gestating within them.
Earth and, in time, be subsumed into the earthly substance of the child she gestated in her aetherical womb.
Her mother, caged by a spell, had been given no choice but to remain on Earth and, in time, be subsumed into the earthly substance of the child she gestated in her aetherical womb.
My husband and I wish to leave cells on deposit for three zygotes, to be gestated at a later time.
All but me, because I was gestated in a womb-analogue set-up similar to the voidhawks and their captains.
Their first five offspring had been gestated in exowombs after the zygotes had been carefully geneered to the latest physiological pinnacle which the Kulu geneticists had achieved.
The new colony’s start-up population will be gestated in exowombs and cared for by AIs during their childhood.
There in the silent secrecy of her cell she gestated and in approximately a year gave birth to a peculiar little monster who presently began to take on the Nunuli appearance.
By the time the SK2s were gestated, the design was essentially complete.
Cloned from long-dead ancestors, gestated in artificial wombs, they were trained from birth to be soldiers and nothing else.
Despite all the training, despite being gestated specifically to be a soldier, despite a lifetime of nothing but the military, Quint had taken all the fighting he was ever going to take.
And when it senses its end is near, the Great Bird imparts its essence into a world, gestates over centuries, and is then reborn.
The colony got a big lift some years back when a ship Escaped with a cargo of frozen sperm and ova-and the artificial wombs to gestate them-intended to grow cheap labor for UET's mines on Iron Hat.
A clone was grown from a customer's somatic cell, gestated in a uterine replicator and then raised to physical maturity in Bharaputra's creche, a sort of astonishingly-appointed orphanage.