Conception
Conception noun - An idea or statement about all of the members of a group or all the instances of a situation.
Gestation and conception are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gestation" instead a noun "Conception".
Gestation
Gestation noun - The state of containing unborn young within the body.
Usage example: the length of gestation for the gray wolf is about 63 days
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Synonyms for Gestation
Conception and gestation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Conception" instead a noun "Gestation".
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| artificial | artificial conception | artificial gestation |
| early | early conception | early gestation |
Both words in one sentence
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Ghouls has detailed mechanics for conception and gestation... in the context of breeding humans as blood slaves.
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The result are freakish half-human half-chicken hybrids, with the details of their conception and gestation being blessedly skipped over by the story.
Source: Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action - Then again, her metahuman power is the ability to conceive, safely carry and deliver inhumanly large litters of children (up to twenty five babies in one pregnancy), and a secondary power is that gestation, from conception to birth, takes only three days.
Source: Obvious Pregnancy
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