Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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lactation | Yes | No | No | No |
period | Yes | No | No | No |
lactation (noun) | period (noun) |
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feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations |
the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause |
the period following birth during which milk is secreted | an amount of time |
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | |
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | |
the end or completion of something | |
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |