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Superfetation

noun
1.
Fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time.





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... of the debarked tree may act as capillary tubes, like the alburnum of the small debarked cylinder of a pear-tree abovementioned; or may continue to act as placental vessels, as happens to the animal embryon in cases of superfetation; when the fetus continues a month or two in the womb beyond its usual time, of which some instances have been recorded, the placenta continues to supply perhaps the double office both of ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin


Words linked to "Superfetation" :   impregnation, fecundation, superfetate, fertilisation, fertilization


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