Meanings
nounsirehood (uncountable)
- uncountableThe 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
From sire + -hood. Piecewise doublet of seniorhood.
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