Gestation

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 44

jes-tā′shun, n. the act of carrying the young in the womb, pregnancy.— adjs. Ges′tant , laden; Ges′tatory , pertaining to gestation. [Fr.,—L. gestation-em — gestāre , -ātum , to carry— gerĕre , to bear.]