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English
Etymology
allo- (“other, different”) + suck
Verb
allosuck (third-person singular simple present allosucks, present participle allosucking, simple past and past participle allosucked)
- (biology, of an infant, rare) To suckle from a female who is not one's own mother.
2001 June, L Bartoš, “Adoption, allonursing and allosucking in farmed red deer (Cervus elaphus)”, in Animal Science, volume 72, number 3, page 483: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.
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