Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snowflake baby

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English

Syllables: snowflake ba-by
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A baby that is born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor.

Example Sentences

"Once Caroline and Jeffrey gave their consent--or Caroline gave it for them--the eleventh embryo could become the snowflake baby it was meant to be."
"Brownback's presentation included a series of following the development of a child, the result of a discarded embryo, a so-called snowflake''' baby."
"The first snowflake baby was born in the late 1990s, but even with the President's public push, only a couple hundred snowflake children have been born in the United States during the past 10 years"
"It is possible to implant one of these embryos in the womb of a woman, letting her bear the child. This is called having a "snowflake" baby."

Inflected Forms

snowflake babies (plural)

Phrases

snowflake child

Frequently Paired Words

snowflake child

Questions

What does snowflake baby mean?: A baby that is born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor.

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