WEANING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weaning mean? 

• WEANING (noun)
  The noun WEANING has 1 sense:

1. the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal

  Familiarity information: WEANING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEANING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

ablactation; weaning

Hypernyms ("weaning" is a kind of...):

commutation; exchange; substitution (the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:)

Derivation:

wean (gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk)

 Context examples 

Arsenic was then given to the offspring after weaning, and all through adulthood at concentrations relevant to human exposure.

(Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice, NIH)

Skulls of young fragile through weaning.

(IR, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

The A strain has intermediate breeding performance with a high ratio of females at birth and a low litter size at weaning.

(A/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The strain has a low reproductive performance with small litter sizes at birth and weaning.

(AKR/J Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)