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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#m1)

2) When a baby animal suckles, it drinks milk from its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x1)
- Mammals suckle their young with milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x2)
- The kittens suckled while the mother cat purred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x3)
- A joey suckles inside its mother's pouch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x4)
- Whales suckle their babies underwater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x5)
- The piglets pushed to suckle from the sow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x6)
- The babe became still, just as if it was being suckled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/#x7)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/suckle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.