fetus
An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
Other meanings
A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
“The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.”
A kind of
- vertebrate
Kinds of fetus
- baby
- monster
Related words
- fetal
- feticide
- fetus deletus
- fetopathy
- fetucide
- fetus fetishist
- fetuslike
- grandfetus
- multifetus
- superfetation
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “fetus” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.