(noun) animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
(noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
Definitions for Gestation
(noun) the state of containing unborn young within the body
(noun) the period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)
(noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus