suckling

Speech parts

1. suckling - Noun

2. suckling - Verb

Meaning

of Suckle

A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

A small kind of yellow clover (Trifolium filiforme) common in Southern Europe.

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I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live. Confucius

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling. Karen Horney

Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end. D. H. Lawrence

A nursing foal is sometimes called a suckling and a foal that has been weaned is called a weanling. Source: Internet

Among their delicacies was the curdled milk from the stomachs of suckling buffalo calves. Source: Internet

A mother will groom her young during or after it is suckling. Source: Internet

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