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sirehood

noun

Etymology

From sire + -hood. Piecewise doublet of seniorhood.

  1. derived from senior
  2. derived from sire
  3. inherited from sire
  4. suffixed as sirehood — “sire + hood”

Definitions

  1. The property of being a father.

    • The female signal is thus "honest enough" to give the dominant male a reasonable degree of paternity certainty while leaving other males with a smaller (but greater than zero) probability of sirehood.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sirehood. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA