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caecotroph

caecotroph noun: 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.

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
    • He finds the caecotrophs revolting, consisting as they do of semi-digested herbage, discharged through the anus and reswallowed two or three times a week.2003, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, →ISBN, page 158

Forms of caecotroph

pluralcaecotrophs
alternative formcaecotrope
alternative formcecotrope

Questions about caecotroph

What does caecotroph mean?
Caecotroph means 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.
What part of speech is caecotroph?
Caecotroph is a noun.
What is the plural of caecotroph?
The plural of caecotroph is caecotrophs.

Words near caecotroph in the dictionary

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

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