Suckle
verb
To feed a baby or young animal with milk from the mother's body.
The mother cat is suckling her kittens.
Often appears as...
- suckle at the breast
- suckle her young
verb
To draw milk from the mother's breasts or teat.
The baby is suckling at his mother's breast.
Often appears as...
- suckle at the breast
- suckle from the mother
verb
To feed a baby or young animal with milk from the mother's body.
The mother cat is suckling her kittens.
Often appears as...
- suckle at the breast
- suckle her young
verb
To draw milk from the mother's breasts or teat.
The baby is suckling at his mother's breast.
Often appears as...
- suckle at the breast
- suckle from the mother
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Context
Use 'suckle' when talking about animals feeding their babies.
The newborn puppies began to suckle as soon as they found their mother.
Pro Tip 2/3Extended Use
'Suckle' can be used metaphorically to indicate drawing sustenance or support.
He continued to suckle on the wisdom of his mentor long into his career.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Bond
Suckling can imply a bond between mother and child beyond just feeding.
There is an emotional connection between the kangaroo and her joey as she suckles it.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Context
Use 'suckle' when talking about animals feeding their babies.
The newborn puppies began to suckle as soon as they found their mother.
Pro Tip 2/3Extended Use
'Suckle' can be used metaphorically to indicate drawing sustenance or support.
He continued to suckle on the wisdom of his mentor long into his career.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Bond
Suckling can imply a bond between mother and child beyond just feeding.
There is an emotional connection between the kangaroo and her joey as she suckles it.
Pro Tip 1/3Animal Context
Use 'suckle' when talking about animals feeding their babies.
The newborn puppies began to suckle as soon as they found their mother.
Pro Tip 2/3Extended Use
'Suckle' can be used metaphorically to indicate drawing sustenance or support.
He continued to suckle on the wisdom of his mentor long into his career.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Bond
Suckling can imply a bond between mother and child beyond just feeding.
There is an emotional connection between the kangaroo and her joey as she suckles it.
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Elephants Being...
In fact, it's an extremely important aspect of elephant life. It builds lifelong bonds and helps the herd to thrive. Mothers have even been found to adopt orphaned babies, letting them suckle and protecting them after their mothers have died. Some herds have adopted outsiders too, like a human family might do.
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Lion Pride vs Buffalo PIPE...
that success is their cooperation when they work together no other hunters can match them and this cooperation extends into other parts of their lives as well the lionesses nurture their cubs as a team taking turns to guard them and even on occasion suckling one another's influence
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What separates us from...
of suckling and sleeping with the mother, and then another three, four or five years of emotional dependence on her, even when the next child is born. The importance of learning in that time, when behavior is flexible -- and there's an awful lot to learn in chimpanzee society.
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The three different ways...
Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for. A female kangaroo can often simultaneously support one inside her uterus and another in her pouch. In unfavorable conditions,
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Explorers Save Abandoned...
whatever and so I was like we have string cheese he's a little survivor like took my thumb and gave him water and he suckled the water of my thumb and then nibbled on the string cheese I'm a bear for me one of the important things to have on these trips morale is beer
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Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
the surface to breathe and then going under its mom for a period suckle the animals are basically stationary so we don't think that this is sort of a position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the
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The smelly mystery of...
Now, why is this important, apart from being simply very interesting? It's because women vary in the number of areolar glands that they have, and there is a correlation between the ease with which babies start to suckle and the number of areolar glands she has.
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Elephants' Incredible...
bonds and helps the herd to thrive the mothers have even been found to adopt orphan babies letting them suckle and protecting them after their mothers have died and some herds have adopted
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Finding Baby Seals on an...
So with there being so many pups and mothers on the beach, one behaviour in particular that we're seeing a lot of is suckling. And this is a really important stage in a young seal's life.
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Puppy Adopted By Cat...
but kittens live by different social rules even when they suckle they nametag teats with their own individual scent and return to it each time this simple rule maintains peace
Video examples
Elephants Being...
In fact, it's an extremely important aspect of elephant life. It builds lifelong bonds and helps the herd to thrive. Mothers have even been found to adopt orphaned babies, letting them suckle and protecting them after their mothers have died. Some herds have adopted outsiders too, like a human family might do.
Video examples
Lion Pride vs Buffalo PIPE...
that success is their cooperation when they work together no other hunters can match them and this cooperation extends into other parts of their lives as well the lionesses nurture their cubs as a team taking turns to guard them and even on occasion suckling one another's influence
Video examples
What separates us from...
of suckling and sleeping with the mother, and then another three, four or five years of emotional dependence on her, even when the next child is born. The importance of learning in that time, when behavior is flexible -- and there's an awful lot to learn in chimpanzee society.
Video examples
The three different ways...
Even after the baby kangaroo leaves this warm haven, she'll return to suckle milk. Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for. A female kangaroo can often simultaneously support one inside her uterus and another in her pouch. In unfavorable conditions,
Video examples
Explorers Save Abandoned...
whatever and so I was like we have string cheese he's a little survivor like took my thumb and gave him water and he suckled the water of my thumb and then nibbled on the string cheese I'm a bear for me one of the important things to have on these trips morale is beer
Video examples
Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
the surface to breathe and then going under its mom for a period suckle the animals are basically stationary so we don't think that this is sort of a position that would help locomotion once lactation is done that what's estimated to be about five or seven months the
Video examples
The smelly mystery of...
Now, why is this important, apart from being simply very interesting? It's because women vary in the number of areolar glands that they have, and there is a correlation between the ease with which babies start to suckle and the number of areolar glands she has.
Video examples
Elephants' Incredible...
bonds and helps the herd to thrive the mothers have even been found to adopt orphan babies letting them suckle and protecting them after their mothers have died and some herds have adopted
Video examples
Finding Baby Seals on an...
So with there being so many pups and mothers on the beach, one behaviour in particular that we're seeing a lot of is suckling. And this is a really important stage in a young seal's life.
Video examples
Puppy Adopted By Cat...
but kittens live by different social rules even when they suckle they nametag teats with their own individual scent and return to it each time this simple rule maintains peace
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Gwen Moore
American Politician
I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
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Gutzon Borglum
American Sculptor
I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled on Italian art: my slates were covered from end to end with portraits of Savonarola, Fra Angelico, and Wild Bill and Sitting Bull; I knew all equally well and admired them about alike.
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Karen Horney
American Psychologist
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.
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Terry Teachout
American Critic
I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
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Rachel Khoo
British Chef
I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous.
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Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.
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Georgie Fame
British Musician
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
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Gwen Moore
American Politician
I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.
Quote examples
Gutzon Borglum
American Sculptor
I was born in the Golden West, reared in the arms of the Church, deluged with saints to draw from, and suckled on Italian art: my slates were covered from end to end with portraits of Savonarola, Fra Angelico, and Wild Bill and Sitting Bull; I knew all equally well and admired them about alike.
Quote examples
Karen Horney
American Psychologist
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.
Quote examples
Terry Teachout
American Critic
I don't know anybody in the opera business who isn't worried sick about how best to reach out to underpaid millennials who were suckled on the new on-demand pop culture, which supplies them with cheap, unchallenging amusement around the clock.
Quote examples
Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
The maternal duty of suckling her own children, prescribed to mothers by hygienists, is based on a physiological principle: the mother's milk nourishes an infant more perfectly than any other.
Quote examples
Rachel Khoo
British Chef
I remember a trip to Malaysia to visit my dad's family when I was eight. It was Christmas and they roasted a whole suckling pig on the fire and it made me nauseous.
Quote examples
Jamie Hyneman
American Entertainer
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.
Quote examples
Georgie Fame
British Musician
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
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