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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parturition \Par'tu*ri"tion\, noun [L. parturitio, fr. parturire: cf. F. parturition. See {Parturient}.]
1. The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
2. That which is brought forth; a birth. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
parturition
noun: the process of giving birth [syn: {birth}, {giving birth}, {birthing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "parturition": accouchement, babyhood, bearing, beginnings, birth, birth throes, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbed, childbirth, childhood, confinement, cradle, delivery, freshman year, genesis, giving birth, hatching, having a baby, inception, inchoation, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, labor, multiparity, nascence, nascency, nativity, origin, origination, pregnancy, the Nativity, the stork, travail, youth
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