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caecotrope

caecotrope is the alternative spelling of caecotroph.

Meaning of caecotroph

Noun

caecotroph (plural caecotrophs)

  1. In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
    • Vocalizations include food recruitment calls, high-pitched contact and aggressive chirps, a mating call, a toilet-assembly call, and vocalizations specific to pups, such as squawks when pups are stepped on and caecotroph-solicitation chirps.2002, J. Jarvis, P. Sherman, “Heterocephalus glaber Rüppell, 1842: Naked Mole-rat,”, in Mammalian Species, number 706, page 5

Forms of caecotrope

pluralcaecotropes

Questions about caecotrope

What is caecotrope the alternative spelling of?
Caecotrope is the alternative spelling of caecotroph.

Words near caecotrope in the dictionary

  1. caecocentral
  2. caecopexies
  3. caecopexy
  4. caecostomies
  5. caecostomy
  6. caecotrope
  7. caecotropes
  8. caecotroph
  9. caecotrophagic
  10. caecotrophic
  11. caecotrophs

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