PARTURIENCY

parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed

(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; “she was in labor for six hours”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

parturiency (uncountable)

parturition

Source: Wiktionary


Par*tu"ri*en*cy, n.

Definition: Parturition.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

12 June 2025

RAREFACTION

(noun) a decrease in the density of something; “a sound wave causes periodic rarefactions in its medium”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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