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noun
A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, obstetrics, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology
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Synonyms: primigravid, primigravida, primip
Antonyms: multigravid, multigravida, multip, multipara
noun
A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
Topics: biology, medicine, natural-sciences, obstetrics, pathology, sciences, veterinary, zoology
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Synonyms: primip
Antonyms: multip, multipara
noun
(obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: para I
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mother, female parent
History
Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.
Across languages
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