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sirehood

sirehood noun: the property of being a father.

Noun

sirehood (uncountable)

  1. The property of being a father.
    • The female signal is thus "honest enough" to give the dominant male a reasonable degree of paternity certainty while leaving other males with a smaller (but greater than zero) probability of sirehood.2003, Peter J. B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon, Advances in the Study of Behavior, volume 33, page 125

Origin of sirehood

From sire + -hood. Piecewise doublet of seniorhood.

Questions about sirehood

What does sirehood mean?
Sirehood means the property of being a father.
What part of speech is sirehood?
Sirehood is a noun.

Words near sirehood in the dictionary

  1. siredon
  2. siredones
  3. siredons
  4. siree
  5. sirees
  6. sirehood
  7. Sirek
  8. Sireks
  9. sireland
  10. sirelands
  11. sireless

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