gestation
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Gestation crates are still widely used by farmers, and McDonald’s still buys meat from them.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023
Gestation is considered a full-time job; the days at Golden Oaks have the same intense orderliness of a factory floor.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2019
Gestation for a litter is roughly 31 days.
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015
Gestation is exactly sixty-three days, during which the alpha female digs a den for raising the pups.
From Scientific American • Oct. 9, 2015
Gestation, period of, in the dog, wolf, &c, i. 29-30; in the pig, i.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
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