parturiate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See parturient.

Verb[edit]

parturiate (third-person singular simple present parturiates, present participle parturiating, simple past and past participle parturiated)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To bring forth young.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for parturiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)