gestation period

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Noun

gestation period (plural gestation periods)

  1. The average interval between fertilization and birth of a mammal; ranges from 13 days for the opossum to 626 days for the Indian elephant.
    • 2025 November 26, Sir Michael Holden, “Good and bad in the Bill”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 15:
      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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