Definitions for fetuses

fetuses fe·tus

Spelling: [fee-tuh s]
IPA: /ˈfi təs/

Fetuses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in fetuses (eefsstu).

Definitions for fetuses

noun

  1. (used chiefly of viviparous mammals) the young of an animal in the womb or egg, especially in the later stages of development when the body structures are in the recognizable form of its kind, in humans after the end of the second month of gestation.

Origin of fetuses

1350-1400; Middle English Latin fētus bringing forth of young, hence that which is born, offspring, young still in the womb, equivalent to fē- (v. base attested in L only in noun derivatives,

Examples for fetuses

Each is tasked with eating two fetuses (tiny beaks, feathers, and claws included), but only one can finish the challenge.

fetuses deficient at their extremities, or have a duplicature of parts.

To be sure, there are wackos on the anti-choice side, with their photos of fetuses and extreme rhetoric.

At early genetic testing, 99 percent of fetuses are normal when a woman is 35, and 97 percent at 40.

In the first guinea pig the two fetuses were practically fully developed and covered with hair.

A Christian activist had two fetuses called as witnesses—the latest sign of a nationwide attack on abortion rights.

fetuses were dead and were not appreciably larger than the one of the same clutch in the egg opened on July 31.

As did their fetuses, including those of the four women who were in their last trimester.

Thus it seems unlikely that, if No. 11 conceived, she lost her fetuses in utero.

In three fetuses the bacillus was found in the intestinal contents in pure culture; in one fetus it was isolated from the blood.

Word Value for fetuses
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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