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GRAVIDA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gravida mean?
• GRAVIDA (noun)
The noun GRAVIDA has 2 senses:
1. the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in
2. a pregnant woman
Familiarity information: GRAVIDA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The number of the pregnancy that a woman is in
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
in her third pregnancy a woman is said to be gravida three
Hypernyms ("gravida" is a kind of...):
gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A pregnant woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("gravida" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gravida"):
gravida I; primigravida ((obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time)
gravida II; secundigravida (a woman who is pregnant for the second time)
gravida III; tertigravida (a woman who is pregnant for the third time)
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