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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process of giving birth;
[syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Parturition \Par`tu*ri"tion\, n. [L. parturitio, fr. parturire: cf. F. parturition. See Parturient.] 1. The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth. [1913 Webster] 2. That which is brought forth; a birth. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

parturition n 1: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "parturition": accouchement, babyhood, bearing, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth