Usually means: Young animal feeding on mother.
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  1. suckling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Suckling, suckling: Merriam-Webster
  3. suckling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suckling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suckling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Suckling, suckling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suckling, suckling: Wordnik
  8. suckling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suckling: Wiktionary
  10. suckling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suckling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suckling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suckling: Dictionary.com
  14. suckling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Suckling (disambiguation), Suckling (surname), Suckling, The Suckling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Suckling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. suckling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. suckling: Rhymezone
  19. Suckling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. suckling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. suckling: FreeDictionary.org
  22. suckling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Suckling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. suckling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. suckling: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Suckling: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  3. suckling: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
▸ noun:  A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.
▸ noun:  The act of suckling.

Similar:
nursling, nurseling, nursing, breastling, sucking, sucking urge, allosuckling, nurshing, posseting, insucking, more...

Opposite:
weaning, unfeeding, decanting

Types:
pig, rabbit, calf, lamb, kid, foal, more...

Phrases:
suckling pig, john suckling, suckling pigs, suckling reflex, suckling animals, more...

Adjectives:
frequent, infant, prolonged, young, early, little, poor, natural, nonnutritive, normal, nutritive

Colors:
    pale pink,     baby blue,     soft lavender,     pastel yellow,     mint green, more...


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Similar:
nursling, nurseling, nursing, breastling, sucking, sucking urge, allosuckling, nurshing, posseting, insucking, more...

Opposite:
weaning, unfeeding, decanting

Types:
pig, rabbit, calf, lamb, kid, foal, more...

Phrases:
suckling pig, john suckling, suckling pigs, suckling reflex, suckling animals, sir john suckling, suckling sir john, multiple suckling, James Suckling, The Suckling, Maurice Suckling, Catherine Suckling, more...

Adjectives:
frequent, infant, prolonged, young, early, little, poor, natural, nonnutritive, normal, nutritive

Colors:
    pale pink,     baby blue,     soft lavender,     pastel yellow,     mint green, more...



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