| NOUN | process | giving birth, parturition, birth, birthing | the process of giving birth |
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| Meaning | The process of giving birth. | |
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| Synonyms | parturition, birth, birthing | |
| Part of | reproduction | The process of generating offspring |
| Narrower | brooding, incubation | Sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body |
| calving | giving birth to a calf | |
| childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth | The parturition process in human beings | |
| farrow, farrowing | The production of a litter of pigs | |
| hatch, hatching | The production of young from an egg | |
| laying, egg laying | The production of eggs (especially in birds) | |
| parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed | concluding state of pregnancy | |
| Broader | organic process, biological process | A process occurring in living organisms |
| Spanish | nacimiento, parto, parturición | |
| Catalan | naixença, parturició | |
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