gestate
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It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024
Fujii said female otters gestate for about six months and then keep their young for another six months before weaning them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2023
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Chief among these hallmarks of placental mammals is the capacity to birth well-developed young, which gestate for a prolonged period inside the mother before being born in an advanced state.
From Scientific American • May 17, 2022
The girls can't gestate in that climate, at least not until they've been there long enough to get their glands adjusted.
From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward
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