Crossword clues for childbearing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Childbearing \Child"bear`ing\, n.
The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
--Milton. Addison.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth n. The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition
WordNet
adj. relating to or suitable for childbirth; "of childbearing age"
n. the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth, accouchement, vaginal birth]
Usage examples of "childbearing".
She looked curiously at an announcement of a midwifery class, and realized how much she took for granted that childbearing was a simple matter.
The latter proved a strikingly voluptuous woman of large hips, breasts and wide pink nipples, belly scored by childbearing above lush pubic hair.
A superstition really, but since Yana, before conceiving, had thought herself well past childbearing age, it seemed wise to encourage every sort of good luck.
Now faded green-and-gold paint striped her human torso, even her breasts, which sagged as did those of crones well past their childbearing years.
Her childbearing made her a goddess, the basis for fertility cults throughout the Near East.
Capacious childbearing hips, bones ripe for hauling in wheat and barley.
Thus he knew that his mother had always cared for his younger brother more than himand how not, when he had been her first experience of the humiliating sickness of pregnancy, the agony and travail of childbearing, and the pesky, persistent labor of looking after infant, toddler, No and Why!
By the time a female had reached childbearing age, she knew her place in the society and would never dream of challenging the existing order of things.
Nine more stood behind them, and then another row of nine, with the children and the childbearing women huddled in the middle.
Whoever had the childbearing power, Torlyri thought, owed it to the tribe to be hatching an unborn of her own.
A little while later the shy and stolid young warrior Praheurt asked to be one of them, and then Shatalgit, a woman just entering childbearing age, who all too obviously was hoping to mate herself with Praheurt.
Even though she had risked a belated childbearing, of which she had nearly died, she had borne only sons.
Then she'd agree, cheerfully adding varicosity, slacked breast and vaginal sphincter, striation of buttock and thigh, and loss of hair-sheen to the list of her biological expenses in the childbearing way -- all which she counted as nothing, since for three such princelets she'd've died thrice over.
What he thought about sexual dimorphism was mostly charitable compassion for the nasty predicaments females found themselves in every month, and the even worse ones that confronted them in childbearing.