gestational

1. 1.

   of or relating to gestation

Questions about gestational

What does gestational mean?

gestational means "of or relating to gestation".

How many syllables are in gestational?

gestational has 5 syllables and divides as ge-sta-ti-o-nal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is gestational a common word?

gestational is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.