il bambino/la bambina in provetta

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Keith

Today’s Parola del Giorno is the noun expression, il bambino in provetta (la bambina in provetta), which means test tube baby. You’ll often see this noun used with the expression, nascere in provetta, which means to be born in a test tube. See the expression used in its context below:

Aldous Huxley nel suo romanzo “Brave New World” immaginava un mondo dove i bambini in provetta erano una cosa che capitava tutti i giorni.

Aldous Huxley, in his book, The Brave New World, imagined a world where test tube babies were an everyday occurrence.

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