Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Australia, Canada, US, also)An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.

    Fötus

    плодplod, заро́дышzaródyš, эмбрио́нembrión

    плідplid, заро́докzaródok, ембріо́нembrión

    an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal

  2. (Australia, Canada, US, also)A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.

    The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.

  3. (Australia, Canada, US, also, archaic)A neonate.

Examples

23 sentences
  1. A fetus is not a baby.

    Ембріон - це не дитина.

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  2. A fetus is not a person.

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  3. Gustavo took a look at the fetuses.

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  4. Gustavo gave the fetus a proper burial.

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  5. Living people are more important than fetuses.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal:
Русский
By meaning 1
an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal:

Origin

A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.

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Forms

plural: fetuses / feti / fetii

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal:foetus

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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