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  • noun Plural form of parturition.

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Examples

  • It came as no surprise to me that most of the wing nuts who work for FOX News are the parturitions of bad aliens.

    STRANGE ORBS OF PARTURITIONS News from Mad Plato 2009

  • It came as no surprise to me that most of the wing nuts who work for FOX News are the parturitions of bad aliens.

    Archive 2009-10-01 News from Mad Plato 2009

  • Age at first conception for females is about 1.5 years, and the time between parturitions is generally shorter than that of goats or sheep in the tropics.

    15 Agouti 1991

  • Wells was remarkable, among other things, for his consistently odd and unpredictable behavior when faced with pregnancies and parturitions for which he was responsible.

    Wells and Women West, Anthony 1985

  • And how these of mine, and of The States, will in their turn be convuls’d, and serve other parturitions and transitions,

    Thoughts 1900

  • How they pass and have pass’d, through convuls’d pains as through parturitions;

    Thoughts 1900

  • Mayo-Smith remarks that the proportion of multiple births is not more than 1 per cent of the total number of parturitions.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Mayo-Smith remarks that the proportion of multiple births is not more than 1 per cent. of the total number of parturitions.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Prompt as is the normal parturition in the mare, however, difficult and delayed parturitions are surrounded by special dangers and require unusual precautions and skill.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • How they pass through convulsed pains, as through parturitions;

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

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