altricial

Meanings

Adjective

Helpless at birth (of young animals); or having young which are helpless at birth.

Noun

Such an animal

Related

Similar words

nidicolous

Origin

From modern Latin Altrices (a former division of birds), plural of altrix, the feminine of altor ‘nourisher’, from alere ‘nourish’.

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