allosuck

verb

allosuck

verb

Etymology From allo- (“other, different”) + suck.

1

Biology, Natural sciences Rare, Of an infant To suckle from a female who is not one's own mother.

  • For each calf recorded to allosuck from a non-maternal hind, total number of allosucked hindswithin the periods of age 0 to 15, 16 to 30, 31 to 45and 45 plus days was calculated.2001 June, L Bartoš, “Adoption, allonursing and allosucking in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus)”, in Animal Science, volume 72, number 3, page 483:
Derived terms
allosuckling
Related terms
allonurse

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