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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A newly weaned child or young animal.
  • noun A weaned racehorse that is less than one year old.
  • adjective Newly weaned.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A child or young animal newly weaned.
  • Recently weaned.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • a. & n. from wean, v.
  • (Med.) See under Brash.
  • noun A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
  • adjective Recently weaned.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any young mammal that has been recently weaned.
  • noun Specifically, a human child that has been recently weaned.
  • noun Specifically, a young horse that has been weaned from its mother, but is less than one year old (usually 5-12 months old).

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  • a young horse that has just been weaned from their mother (usually 6 months or a little older)

    April 20, 2009