breast-fed

7 2.1

Babies who drink their mother's milk instead of milk from a bottle

adjective
/ˈbrɛstˌfɛd/

: lactante

She favors natural childbirth and wants her baby to be "breast-fed, not bottle-fed" (210-11).
breast-fed infants

It goes from like breast fed to bottle fed to being fed by a woman, like kind of vaguely covered in plastic, you know?

Examples

Farther up the mountain, Joanna spotted a young woman sitting on a log bench at a lookout, breast-feeding a child who must have been four or five years old.

Fiction book (2002)
Of the total eight deaths from epidemic diarrhea among breast-fed infants, none occurred after the sixth month of life.

Academic text (2013)
She breast-fed Michael till he was three years old.

Grace (2009)
You wonder if you would have had a better chance at being slimmer if you had breast-fed the first child.

Fiction book (1996)
Many women around the world breast-feed their children longer than what many Westerners think is "normal."

Blog text (30)
When the baby grew restless, Pine breast-fed her while continuing her lecture in front of 40 students.

Blog text (11)
Because human breast milk normally contains DHA, its consumption is not a concern for breast-fed babies.

Academic text (2006)
Adrienne Pine, a professor at American University, recently breast-fed her infant daughter during the first lecture of a "Sex, Gender and Culture" class.

Blog text (32)
"But now, you know, Mudear always bragged on the fact that she breast-fed all her children," Betty said with a sly smile.

Fiction book (1993)
Many working women find it challenging to breast-feed their babies after returning to work.

Synonyms

unweaned

vsbreast-fed

1 8.8

A baby or young animal that is not yet eating food other than its mother's milk

focuses on feeding method rather than on stage of changing diet

suckled

vsbreast-fed

6.2

A baby or young animal that is fed milk by its mother

is the same meaning and refers to feeding directly from the mother

nursed

vsbreast-fed

1.1

A baby fed breast milk by its mother

is the same meaning and denotes feeding by the mother only

Antonyms

bottle-fed

2 2.1

A baby or young animal fed milk from a bottle rather than by its mother

Surface Forms

breast-fed positive

Morphology

breast-fed = breastfeed (transparent) = breast + feed + ed

Formed by adding the past-participial/adjectival '-ed' to the verb 'breastfeed', so the relation to 'breast' + 'feed' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Breast-fed is made of breast, meaning the mother's chest that makes milk, and fed, the past of 'feed' meaning 'to give food'. That's why it means a baby was 'given milk from the mother's breast'.