fetus
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)fetuses
- an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animalSynonyms: foetusType of vertebrate, craniateKinds abortus, baby, monsterParts ductus arteriosus, umbilical cord
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Translations
Noun foetus, unborn baby
- Spanish
- feto
- French
- fœtus
- German
- Fötus
- Italian
- feto
- Portuguese
- feto
- Russian
- плод plod
- Arabic
- جَنِين janīn
- Chinese
- 胎儿 tāi'ér
- Japanese
- 胎児 taiji
- Dutch
- foetus
22 more languages
- Polish
- płód
- Swedish
- foster
- Greek
- έμβρυο émvryo
- Korean
- 태아 taea
- Indonesian
- janin
- Vietnamese
- thai
- Hungarian
- magzat
- Portuguese (PT)
- feto
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 胎兒 tāir
- Catalan
- fetus
- Czech
- plod
- Danish
- foster
- Esperanto
- feto
- Estonian
- loode
- Finnish
- sikiö
- Icelandic
- fóstur
- Latvian
- auglis
- Lithuanian
- vaisius
- Norwegian
- foster
- Romanian
- făt
- Serbo-Croatian
- fetus
- Slovenian
- plod
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. fetus, foetus, a bringing forth, brood, offspring, young ones, cf. fetus fruitful, fructified, that is or was filled with young; akin to E. fawn a deer, fecundity, felicity, feminine, female, and prob. to do, or according to others, to be.
The young or embryo of a vertebrate animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals. showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. [Written also fœtus.]
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54