🇬🇧 Fetus meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A fetus is a tiny baby growing inside a mother’s womb (belly). It has a head, body, arms, and legs, but it is not ready to live outside yet. It eats through its mother, floats in warm liquid, and keeps growing until it is strong enough to be born as a newborn baby.

The fetus was basically living in a private swimming pool, doing tiny underwater backflips all day.

Inside Mom’s belly, the fetus heard Dad singing off-key and decided it might stay in there a little longer.

Our dog keeps guarding Mom’s belly like the fetus already hired him as its personal bodyguard.

My sister talks to the fetus every day, so when it’s born, it will already know who the noisy one in the family is.

The fetus gets free food from Mom all day, like the ultimate all-you-can-eat belly buffet.

She watched the screen as the fetus curled and waved. The doctor smiled, pointing: the fetus had tiny hands and a strong heart. Her partner pressed a palm to the belly; the fetus kicked and they both laughed. The nurse printed a photo of the fetus. They kissed the belly, felt the fetus again, then left relieved.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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