单词 | hand-reared |
释义 | > as lemmashand-reared hand-reared adj. (of an animal or, formerly, a child) that has been hand-reared; cf. hand-fed adj. ΚΠ 1853 H. Cockton Percy Effingham I. i. 11 The plantation..is studded with ‘hand-reared’ game. 1861 Lancet 12 Jan. 33/1 A question naturally arises as to the best substitute for breast-milk in the case of hand-reared children. 1894 Daily News 2 Oct. 6/6 Both with natural and hand-reared birds. 1996 Q. Rev. Biol. 71 580/2 An individual owl's journey through life from a 4-week old hand-reared owlet to maturity. 2011 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 24/3 By winter our hand-reared flock had been cruelly whittled down to just two. < as lemmas |
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