Meaning of gestate In English

• 0 (of a female animal) to have a baby developing inside the body or (of a child or young animal) to develop inside a mother's body:

  • Female elephants gestate for a staggering 22 months.

  • healthy foetuses that have gestated at least 20 weeks

  • Those snakes are often females, soaking up the sun to help their metabolism deal with the demand of gestating a litter of young.

• 1 (of an idea, thought, or plan) to develop or be developed over time:

  • The internet had been gestating since the fifties.

  • The subconscious mind needs time to gestate the work.