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caecotrophs

caecotrophs is the plural 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

Questions about caecotrophs

What is caecotrophs the plural of?
Caecotrophs is the plural of caecotroph.

Words near caecotrophs in the dictionary

  1. caecotrope
  2. caecotropes
  3. caecotroph
  4. caecotrophagic
  5. caecotrophic
  6. caecotrophs
  7. caecotrophy
  8. caeculid
  9. caeculids
  10. caecum
  11. caecums

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