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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

yeanyin(v.i.)

  1. (of a sheep or goat) to bring forth young.

    Category: Zoology

Origin of yean:

1375–1425; late ME yenen, OE *geēanian to bring forth young =ge-y - +ēanian to yean, akin to L agnus, Gk ámnos lamb

Wiktionary

  1. yean(Verb)

    To give birth to.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Yean

    to bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean


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