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allosucking

allosucking is the present participle and gerund of allosuck.

Meaning of allosuck

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

Questions about allosucking

What is allosucking the present participle and gerund of?
Allosucking is the present participle and gerund of allosuck.

Words near allosucking in the dictionary

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

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