| 单词 | hand-rearing |
| 释义 | > as lemmashand-rearing hand-rearing n. (a) an act, or the action or process, of feeding and caring for a young animal until it is fully grown or can feed itself; (b) (in extended use) the feeding of a baby or young child (esp. an orphan in an institution) by bottle or some other artificial means (now historical). ΚΠ 1840 J. E. Jones New Pocket Dict. Welsh & Eng. Lang. 203/1 Llawfaethiad,..a hand-rearing. 1849 Living Age 21 85 The statistics in public institutions are well known to show a terrible rate of mortality in hand-rearing. 1953 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 17 465 Banding data procured during a twenty-one-year period of hand-rearing and wild-trapping of ducks at the Delta Marsh. 2008 J. Blunden Mongolia (ed. 2) 119 There is an attempt to re-establish a second population of Mongolian saiga, which would require the hand-rearing of young antelopes. < as lemmas |
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