superfetation

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noun

Plural noun:

superfetationssuperfoetation

1.
(countable, uncountable)The formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
2.
(countable, uncountable)An excessive accumulation; a superfluous addition.
1992, Geoffrey Wall, translator of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary These gentlemen were greatly astonished at Bovary's romantic ideas, and the pharmacist hurried in to say to him: "This velvet looks to me rather a superfetation. Besides, the expense..."

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superfetatesuperfetatious

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From la superfetare conceive while pregnant, from super- + fetus.