Definition of Feeding bottle

1. Noun. A vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children.

Exact synonyms: Bottle, Nursing Bottle
Terms within: Nipple
Generic synonyms: Vessel

Definition of Feeding bottle

1. Noun. A bottle for feeding milk to babies or to the young of other animals. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feeding Bottle

feedflare
feedforward
feedforward control
feedforwarded
feedforwarding
feedforwards
feedgrain
feedgrains
feedhole
feedholes
feedhorn
feedhorns
feeding
feeding and eating disorders of childhood
feeding behaviour
feeding bottle
feeding bottles
feeding centre
feeding chair
feeding frenzies
feeding frenzy
feeding methods
feeding out of
feeding time
feeding tube
feedings
feedline
feedlines
feedlot
feedlots

Literary usage of Feeding bottle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: Their Dietetic, Hygienic, and Medical by Louis Fischer (1917)
"One high saucepan (for warming bottle before feeding). FEEDING-BOTTLES. A proper feeding-bottle is one that has no corners or angles on the inner surface. ..."

2. On the wasting diseases of infants and children by Eustace Smith (1899)
"... as when he is applied to his mother's breast, and the food should be given from a feeding-bottle. When the contents of the bottle are exhausted, ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"The term " feeding-bottle," which the ' NED' dates from 1858, I never heard ; nor ever saw till I read MR. ATKINSON'S query. What was in common use in my ..."

4. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1870)
"Dr. BRAXTON HICKS exhibited a new infant's feeding bottle. It had one end large, over which an india-rubber cap fitted of the form of a breast, ..."

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