RUNT

Runt

In a group of animals, a runt is a member which is smaller or weaker than the others. Due to its small size, a runt in a litter faces obvious disadvantages, including difficulties with competing with its siblings for survival and possible rejection from its mother. Also in a domestic dog litter, most puppies would have to make room for the runt to get milk from the mother. Therefore, in the wild, a runt is less likely to survive infancy.

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runt

Noun

  1. The smallest animal of a litter.
  2. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
  3. An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
  4. A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
  5. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
  6. A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
    Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. — Holland.


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