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noun
A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, obstetrics, sciences
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noun
A woman who has recently given birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
a woman in childbirth or shortly thereafter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mother, female parent
History
Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
