gestations
Periods carrying young
Gestations is the plural of gestation, the period during which offspring develop inside a mother's body before birth.
Human gestation lasts about nine months; elephant gestations run nearly two years.
The word extends to any slow development process: The project went through several gestations before launch.
Different species have vastly different gestations.
States of carrying offspring
- embryosEarliest developmental organisms
- fetusesPrenatal developing offspring
- trimestersThree equal time segments
- wombsFetal gestation organs
prenatal · conceptions · implantations · quickening · fetal development · carrying · expecting · gravidity
Development under controlled warmth
- formationsArranged structures or patterns
- evolutionsGradual developmental processes
- developmentsEvents showing progress
- maturationsProcesses of becoming fully developed
growths · progressions · unfoldings · emergences · nurturing · cultivations · ripening · brewing
Ideas or understandings formed
- ideationsMental concept formation
- brainstormingGenerating many ideas freely
- creative processesWays of generating original work
- formulatingCreating through systematic thought
drafting · artistic development · inspiration · conceptualizing · originating · envisioning · seedlings · genesis
pregnancies
States of carrying offspring
- embryosEarliest developmental organisms
- fetusesPrenatal developing offspring
- trimestersThree equal time segments
wombs · prenatal · conceptions · implantations · quickening · fetal development · carrying · expecting · gravidity · uterine
incubations
Development under controlled warmth
- formationsArranged structures or patterns
- evolutionsGradual developmental processes
- developmentsEvents showing progress
maturations · growths · progressions · unfoldings · emergences · nurturing · cultivations · ripening · brewing · fermenting
conceptions
Ideas or understandings formed
- ideationsMental concept formation
- brainstormingGenerating many ideas freely
- creative processesWays of generating original work
formulating · drafting · artistic development · inspiration · conceptualizing · originating · envisioning · seedlings · genesis · imaginings
gestationsbirths
Acts of being born
deliveries · infancy · childhoods · maturities · afterbirths
gestationscompletions
Acts of finishing
fruitions · realizations · culminations · emergences · manifestations
gestationsdeaths
Permanent cessations of life
endings · declines · decays · expirations · senescence
- gestational ageTime since conception began
- gestation periodPregnancy's full length
- gestational diabetesGlucose intolerance during pregnancy
- gestational carrierPerson carrying another's pregnancy
- gestational surrogacyBearing another couple's embryo