suckle

«suckle» in Mova's school dictionary: When a mother mammal suckles her baby, she feeds it with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (suckle, suckles, suckled, suckling)

meaning for a pupil

1) When a mother mammal suckles her baby, she feeds it with milk from her body. tree →

2) When a baby animal suckles, it drinks milk from its mother. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons on mammals and life cycles, children learn that all mammals suckle their young: cows, cats, whales, kangaroos (joeys in the pouch) and humans. In farm visits, you see lambs and piglets suckling. «Suckling» is also an old word for a baby still drinking its mother's milk. Phrases: «suckle her young», «a suckling pig».

examples

• The cow suckled her calf in the field. tree →
• Mammals suckle their young with milk. tree →
• The kittens suckled while the mother cat purred. tree →
• A joey suckles inside its mother's pouch. tree →
• Whales suckle their babies underwater. tree →
• The piglets pushed to suckle from the sow. tree →
• The babe became still, just as if it was being suckled. tree →

note

Regular verb. A science word for feeding milk; for human babies people usually say «breastfeed». Feeding milk to young is one of the features that makes an animal a mammal.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «suckle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.