Meanings
present singular third person allosucks · participle present allosucking · participle past allosucked · past allosucked
- rarebiologyTo 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
Origin
From allo- (“other, different”) + suck.
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