weanling
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- noun
- /ˈwiːn.lɪŋ/
- Specialized
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destetado
- The farmer carefully introduced solid food to the weanling after weaning it from its mother.
- a weanling calf
Examples
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She was purchased for $20,000 as a weanling and for $150,000 as a yearling.
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He was purchased for $45,000 as a weanling, and is a half-brother to three winners, including grade I stakes-placed Pulsion.
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He was purchased for $130,000 as a weanling and for $190,000 as a yearling.
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Today's warm afternoon weather was welcome because we had to bathe, clip, and pull the manes on two more weanlings who will sell Thursday.
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And while there was general support throughout, we definitely saw a concentration on quality with regard to all types—broodmares, weanlings, and horses of racing age.
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She was purchased for $61,314 as a weanling and is a half-sister to 3 winners, including stakes winner Mabait, who earned $253,804 and was a winner at 2.
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Uptown Anthem was purchased for $27,000 as a weanling, for $18,000 as a yearling, and for $37,000 as a 2-year-old.
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A colt by War Front out of the Seeking the Gold mare Questress brought the sale's top price for a weanling, selling to John McCormack Bloodstock for $800,000.
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She sold for $175,000 as a weanling, and for $280,000 as a yearling, and is out of the winning mare Hi Lili, who has produced 2 winners from 3 to run.
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In spring, the weanlings began to explore the pasture as they adjusted to eating grass.
Synonyms
A young animal that recently stopped drinking its mother's milk
Antonyms
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Weanling comes from the verb wean ('to stop feeding on the mother's milk') plus the small 'young one' ending -ling, the same ending you see in duckling. So a weanling is simply a young animal that has just been weaned and started eating solid food.