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allocaretakers

allocaretakers is the plural of allocaretaker.

Meaning of allocaretaker

Noun

allocaretaker (plural allocaretakers)

  1. An animal that provides allocare to an infant.
    • Direct support for the learning-to-mother hypothesis also comes from the recent observation that young female vervet monkeys who have had the opportunity to act as allocaretakers have higher survivorship of their own young than females who have not previously acted as allocaretakers (Fairbanks...2015, Sharon L. Gursky, The Spectral Tarsier, page 166

Questions about allocaretakers

What is allocaretakers the plural of?
Allocaretakers is the plural of allocaretaker.

Words near allocaretakers in the dictionary

  1. allocability
  2. allocable
  3. allocamelus
  4. allocare
  5. allocaretaker
  6. allocaretakers
  7. allocaretaking
  8. allocarpy
  9. allocatability
  10. allocatable
  11. allocate

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