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allosuck

allosuck verb: to suckle from a female who is not one's own mother.

Verb

allosuck (third-person singular simple present allosucks, present participle allosucking, simple past and past participle allosucked)

  1. (rare) To suckle from a female who is not one's own mother.
    • For each calf recorded to allosuck from a non-maternal hind, total number of allosucked hindswithin the periods of age 0 to 15, 16 to 30, 31 to 45and 45 plus days was calculated.2001 June, L Bartoš, “Adoption, allonursing and allosucking in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus)”, in Animal Science, volume 72, number 3, page 483

Forms of allosuck

third-person singular presentallosucks
present participleallosucking
past participleallosucked
pastallosucked

Origin of allosuck

From allo- (“other, different”) + suck.

Words formed from allosuck

Questions about allosuck

What does allosuck mean?
Allosuck means to suckle from a female who is not one's own mother.
What part of speech is allosuck?
Allosuck is a verb.
What is the past tense of allosuck?
The past tense of allosuck is allosucked.

Words near allosuck in the dictionary

  1. allostimulators
  2. allostimulatory
  3. allostratigraphic
  4. allostratigraphies
  5. allostratigraphy
  6. allosuck
  7. allosucked
  8. allosucking
  9. allosuckling
  10. allosucklings
  11. allosucks

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