"grandfetus" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grandfetuses [plural]
Etymology: From grand- + fetus. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|grand|fetus}} grand- + fetus Head templates: {{en-noun}} grandfetus (plural grandfetuses)
  1. (rare) A fetus of someone’s child. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-grandfetus-en-noun-FpImSg9O Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with grand-

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          "ref": "2000 November 9, Jenny Lynn, “Babies are babies, period”, in North County Times, Escondido, Calif., page A-17, column 5",
          "text": "Has any grandmother ever said that she will soon be able to refer to her grandfetus as a grandbaby?",
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          "ref": "2004 February, Timothy Lachlan Chambers, “Forfar & Arneil’s Textbook of Pediatrics: 6th edition”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 97, page 96, column 1",
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          "ref": "2009, Maridel Lee Bowes, “Second Trimester”, in Who Are You Calling Grandma?: True Confessions of a Baby Boomer’s Passage, 2nd edition, Sacramento, Calif.: 3L Publishing, section “January 22”, page 22",
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          "ref": "2015, Kate Braestrup, Anchor & Flares: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hope, and Service, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass., London: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, chapter one, page 4",
          "text": "The newest family member (whom I refer to for the time being as our grandfetus) is now big enough to startle his dad-to-be with kicks and bumps visible on the outside of his mother’s belly.[…]Nowadays, it’s normal to know, so Simon and I know that our grandfetus is a boy.",
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