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cecotroph

cecotroph is the alternative form 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 cecotroph

pluralcecotrophs

Questions about cecotroph

What is cecotroph the alternative form of?
Cecotroph is the alternative form of caecotroph.

Words near cecotroph in the dictionary

  1. cecostomies
  2. cecostomy
  3. CECOT
  4. cecotrope
  5. cecotropes
  6. cecotroph
  7. cecotrophs
  8. cecotrophy
  9. cecoureterocele
  10. cecoureteroceles
  11. cecropia

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