sirehood
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sirehood (uncountable)
- The property of being a father.
- 2003, Peter J. B. Slater, Jay S. Rosenblatt, Charles T. Snowdon, Advances in the Study of Behavior, volume 33, page 125:
- 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.