superconception

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ conception.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

superconception (uncountable)

1. (biology, archaic) superfetation
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     those superconceptions, where one child was like the father, the other like the adulterer

References

• “superconception”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.