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# teat

«teat» in Mova's school dictionary: **the small, soft part on a female mammal's body that her…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a teat, teats)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A teat is the small, soft part on a female mammal's body that her babies suck to get milk; cows, goats and pigs have teats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#m1)

2) A teat is the rubber or plastic top of a baby's bottle that the baby sucks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and farm lessons, teats are how mammals feed their young with milk: a cow is milked from her four teats, piglets each find a teat on the sow. At home, a baby's bottle has a teat. Phrases: «the cow's teats», «bottle teat».

### examples

- The calf drank milk from its mother's teat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#x1)
- A cow has four teats on her udder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#x2)
- The farmer milked the goat's teats by hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#x3)
- Each piglet found a teat and started to drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#x4)
- Mum boiled the bottle teats to keep them clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#x5)
- The baby lamb would not take the teat, so we fed it with a syringe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/#x6)

### note

Plural «teats». Say «teet». It is a normal science and farm word, not rude. In some places people say «nipple» for the human body part and for a bottle teat (USA: «nipple» for bottle). Trap: «teat» is not «treat» or «tit» (a small bird).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «teat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.