Akademik

litter

1. A stretcher or portable couch for moving the sick or injured. 2. A group of animals of the same parents, born at the same time. SYN: brood (1). [Fr. litière; fr. lit, bed]

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lit·ter 'lit-ər n

1) a device (as a stretcher) for carrying a sick or injured person

2) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous animal

litter vt to give birth to a litter of (young) vi to give birth to a litter

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lit·ter (litґər) 1. stretcher. 2. the offspring produced at one birth by a multiparous animal.

Medical dictionary. 2011.