Usually means: Born helpless, requiring parental care.
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  1. altricial: Merriam-Webster
  2. altricial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. altricial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. altricial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. altricial: Vocabulary.com
  6. altricial: Wordnik
  7. altricial: Wiktionary
  8. altricial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. altricial: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. altricial: Dictionary.com
  11. Altricial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. altricial: Rhymezone
  13. altricial: FreeDictionary.org
  14. altricial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. altricial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. altricial: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. altricial: Merriam-Webster

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  1. altricial: Encyclopedia

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  1. altricial: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dinosaurs (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. altricial: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (altricial)

adjective:  (zoology) Helpless at birth (of young animals); or having young which are helpless at birth.
noun:  Such an animal.

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