bottle feeding

  • 41bottle-feed — bot·tle feed bät əl .fēd vt, fed; feed·ing to feed (an infant) from a bottle rather than by breast feeding …

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  • 42feeding-bottle — noun (C) a plastic bottle used for giving milk to a baby or young animal …

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  • 43Baby bottle — A baby bottle is a bottle with a teat (also called a nipple in the US) to drink directly from. It is typically used when a mother does not breastfeed, or if someone can not (as conveniently) drink from a cup, for feeding oneself or being fed.In… …

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  • 44nursing bottle — noun a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children • Syn: ↑bottle, ↑feeding bottle • Hypernyms: ↑vessel • Part Meronyms: ↑nipple * * * n …

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  • 45bring up on the bottle — To rear by bottle feeding rather than by breastfeeding • • • Main Entry: ↑bottle …

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  • 46demand feeding — /dəˈmænd fidɪŋ/ (say duh mand feeding) noun the breast or bottle feeding of a baby when it cries, rather than according to a set routine …

  • 47Nursing bottle — Bottle Bot tle, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille, F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. {Butt} a cask.] 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow… …

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  • 48Blue bottle fly — is also a common name for the species Protophormia terraenovae. Blue bottle fly Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia …

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  • 49Blue Bottle Fly — Taxobox image width = 250px image caption = Blue bottle fly regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Hexapoda classis = Insecta subclassis = Pterygota infraclassis = Neoptera superordo = Endopterygota| ordo = Diptera subordo = Brachycera …

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  • 50Sucking bottle — Sucking Suck ing, a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. [1913 Webster] I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. [1913 …

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