2. Verb. (third-person singular of litter) ¹
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Definition of Litters
1. litter [v] - See also: litter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litters
Literary usage of Litters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"The average sex ratio in a stock of 3472 guinea-pigs is 100.54 when the individuals
born in all litters are considered. On comparing the ratios from ..."
2. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"The litters which are pigged in June, General Management and Store-feeding. ...
after they have had two or three litters, may be killed ; but no breeder ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"Three stillborn litters of nine individuals were produced. Sixty per cent, of
the matings gave living litters, as against 44% in the first combination ..."
4. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"CHAPTER V SIZE OF litters; BIRTH WEIGHT OF PIGS; MILK-FLOW OF ... SIZE OF litters
The ability of the sow regularly to produce large litters is the most ..."
5. A Report to the Surgeon General on the Transport of Sick and Wounded by Pack by George Alexander Otis (1877)
"The price bid ie understood, as in other cases, to include the whole set, namely,
head-stall, harness, saddle, and two litters for each mule. ..."
6. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"The F2 hybrid females, the \ wild, produced 217 young in 114 litters, or an
average of 1.90 ... The F3 hybrid females produced 312 offspring in 152 litters, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Size and composition of litters from FaFa X FaFa crosses are included for ...
For Fafa sired litters the fafa pups comprised 25.5% of the offspring, ..."
8. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"WM Hays, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, it was planned to compare the records
of the earliest five years for which a comprehensive number of litters ..."