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sucking louse |
sucking pig |
suckle |
suckled |
suckler |
suckling
| suckling pig
| suckling reflex
| sucralfate
| sucrase
| sucrate
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suckling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun suckling has 4 senses
- suckling(n = noun.person) sir john suckling - English poet and courtier (1609-1642); Array is a kind of courtier, poet
- suckling(n = noun.person) nurseling, nursling - an infant considered in relation to its nurse; Array is a kind of babe, baby, infant
- suckling(n = noun.animal) Array - a young mammal that has not been weaned; Array is a kind of young mammal
- suckling(n = noun.act) lactation - feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast; Array is a kind of alimentation, feeding
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A young child or animal nursed at the breast. [1913 Webster]
- A small kind of yellow clover (
Trifolium filiforme ) common in Southern Europe. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
suckling
babe, baby, baby bunting, bambino, incubator baby, infant, little angel, little darling, mewling infant, neonate, nursling, papoose, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, puling infant, toddler, weanling, yearlingROGET THESAURUS
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Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
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