Meaning of superfetation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The formation of a fetus while another fetus is already present in the uterus.
   countable, uncountable
2. An excessive accumulation; a superfluous addition.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“1992, Geoffrey Wall, translator of Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary These gentlemen were greatly astonished at Bovary's romantic ideas, and the pharmacist hurried in to say to him: "This velvet looks to me rather a superfetation. Besides, the expense..."”

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