posthumous birth

1. 1.

   birth of a child after the father has died

   Broaderbirth
2. 2.

   birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother

   Broaderbirth

Questions about posthumous birth

What does posthumous birth mean?

posthumous birth means "birth of a child after the father has died". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is posthumous birth a common word?

posthumous birth 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.