gestate

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It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.

From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024

Sheep typically gestate for about 5 months; the lambs that the researchers used were the equivalent of a human fetus at 23 weeks of gestation.

From Scientific American • Sep. 18, 2023

And with smaller indie venues unable to compete for big-name talent, they’re less likely to take chances on sparsely attended scenes that need time to gestate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons gestate a female’s fertilized eggs in a pouch.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

Thus preparing the upper crust of our earth as a "placenta" ready to gestate plant and animal life.

From The Brain by Blade, Alexander