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Etymology

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un- +‎ reared

Adjective

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unreared (not comparable)

  1. Not yet reared or brought up.
    • 1985, Pritam Singh, Ray F. Moore, Handbook of Insect Rearing, volume 1, page 190:
      Special nutritional needs of previously unreared species can be gauged only by experimentation, []
    • 2014, Kirsten Wolf, Writings by Western Icelandic Women, page 182:
      [] the dying woman, who had no business to be dying in a world where so much pork was yet unfried, so many babies yet unreared.