The hatchling burrowed... straight for the nearest source of radiation... your father's power plant, in Janjira... and cocooned there for 15 years, absorbing its radioactive fuel... to gestate, to grow.
n. [ L. gestatio a bearing, carrying, fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. gestation. See Gest deed, Jest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
1. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]