weanling

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Doug Martin, the third generation of a 75-year-old family farm near Selkirk, Manitoba, is reluctantly closing his barns and selling off every one of his 1,200 sows and weanlings.

From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2012

A series of analyses of juvenile baboon teeth suggests that weanlings experience physiological stress at predictable times during the weaning process – which could certainly be evidence for a parent-offspring conflict.

From Scientific American • Feb. 25, 2011

So, where apart the folded weanlings lie, Swift at some lamb the warrior-wolf doth fly, And leaves the mother, bleating in her woe.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

When pigs are taken from their dam they are sometimes called delici or weanlings being then no longer lactantes or sucklings.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax