| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| superfetate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | su·per·fe·tate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s  p r-f  t t |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: su·per·fe·tat·ed, su·per·fe·tat·ing, su·per·fe·tates
To conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin superftre, superftt- : super-, super- + ftre, to breed (from ftus, offspring; see dh(i)- in Appendix I).
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