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Foetus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Chiefly British Variant of fetus.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of fetus.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Same as fetus.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

Word Usage

"The position held above in the comments that a foetus is just a set of cells and not a person is refuted with a consideration of simple geography: compare a 7-month premature baby kept alive in an incubator, with a 7-month "foetus" in the womb."

Equivalent

fœtus

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

craniate vertebrate

Cross Reference

embryo

Variant

fetus

Hyponym

monster abortus teras baby

Form

foetal

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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