Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun;
results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time;
- Example: "superfetation is normal in some animal species"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Superfetation \Su`per*fe*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. superf['e]tation.]
(Physiol.)
The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation
occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of
the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when
there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up
to the time of the second impregnation.
[1913 Webster]
In then became a superfetation upon, and not an
ingredient in, the national character. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
superfetation
n 1: fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun;
results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at
the same time; "superfetation is normal in some animal
species"