gestation period

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gestation period

noun gestation periods

The average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant. We have waited a very long time for the Railways Bill to see the light of day. The starting gun was fired as long ago as May 2021, when the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail was finally published, after its own gestation period of nearly three years.

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@misc{gestation_period_2026,
  title = {gestation period},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gestation%20period},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}