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Plural of suckling

regular plural

The plural of suckling is sucklings.

Forms of suckling

Singularsuckling
Pluralsucklings
Countablecountable

Meaning of suckling

  1. noun An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
  2. noun A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.
  3. noun The act of suckling.

Full definition of suckling

Questions about the plural of suckling

What is the plural of suckling?
The plural of suckling is sucklings.
Is suckling countable?
Suckling is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suckling (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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