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What does gestate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word gestate? Here's what it means.

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  1. To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
  2. (by analogy) To develop an idea.
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The new embryo would then be implanted in the uterus of a pregnant mouse, chimpanzee, or human to gestate until birth.
Let an idea gestate in your head or some sort of personal space for awhile.
I think it might be because human babies gestate slightly longer.
But the oocyte can also be transferred to a woman who cannot produce one herself, but will receive this donation and gestate to term.
Animals which are currently threatened with extinction may be saved by the use of frozen embryos and IVF technology which uses related species to gestate embryos.
That makes them more like elephant mothers, who give birth to very few babies and have to gestate them for almost two years.

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