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unreared

unreared adjective: not yet reared or brought up.

Adjective

unreared (not comparable)

  1. Not yet reared or brought up.
    • Special nutritional needs of previously unreared species can be gauged only by experimentation, […]1985, Pritam Singh, Ray F. Moore, Handbook of Insect Rearing, volume 1, page 190
    • […] the dying woman, who had no business to be dying in a world where so much pork was yet unfried, so many babies yet unreared.2014, Kirsten Wolf, Writings by Western Icelandic Women, page 182

Origin of unreared

From un- + reared.

Questions about unreared

What does unreared mean?
Unreared means not yet reared or brought up.
What part of speech is unreared?
Unreared is an adjective.

Words near unreared in the dictionary

  1. unreally
  2. unrealmed
  3. unrealness
  4. unreamed
  5. unreaped
  6. unreared
  7. unrearrangeable
  8. unrearranged
  9. unreason
  10. unreasonabilities
  11. unreasonability

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