Definitions for ablactation

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ablactation(noun)

    the cessation of lactation

  2. weaning, ablactation(noun)

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

Wiktionary

  1. ablactation(Noun)

    The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young animals from their dam.

  2. ablactation(Noun)

    The process of grafting now called inarching, or "grafting by approach"

  3. Origin: From ablactacioun from ablactatio, ablacto from ab + lac.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ablactation(noun)

    the weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam

  2. Ablactation(noun)

    the process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach


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