bottle-fed
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- adjective
- /ˈbɑtəlˌfɛd/
:
alimentado con biberón
- She was brought up on sheep's milk eventually, bottle-fed like a runty lamb.
It goes from like breast fed to bottle fed to being fed by a woman, like kind of vaguely covered in plastic, you know?
- It goes from like breast fed to bottle fed to being fed by a woman, like kind of vaguely covered in plastic, you know?
- And I'm convinced that kids who are bottle fed can be wonderful perfect breathers by adopting other habits beyond that.
Examples
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Many new parents choose to bottle-feed their babies for convenience and flexibility.
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Constipation is very common in toddlers and older children, and is seen in babies (most often if bottle-fed).
Academic text (2014) -
Both were bottle-fed, and I never felt guilty.
Blog text (9) -
Owen was totally bottle-fed after six weeks of lack of breast milk.
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We rescue bottle-fed kittens for our local animal shelter.
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He was a NICU baby who was bottle-fed the first week of his life.
Blog text (9) -
"We are bottle-feeding her."
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The vet recommended that we bottle-feed the abandoned puppy to ensure he gets enough nutrition.
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After being separated from her mother, the orphaned kitten was bottle-fed until she was old enough to eat on her own.
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Morphology
Etymology
Bottle-fed combines bottle and fed, which comes from the verb feed, and it means 'given milk from a bottle' rather than from the mother's breast. Picture a baby or a kitten drinking from a bottle to remember the meaning.