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feeding bottle

n
a bottle fitted with a rubber teat from which infants or young animals suck liquids. Also called: nursing bottle
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.feeding bottle - a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formulafeeding bottle - a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
nipple - a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
vessel - an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
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Translations

feeding bottle

n (Brit) → biberon m inv, poppatoio
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Dickon had carried it over the moor in his arms and its feeding bottle was in his pocket with a squirrel, and when Mary had sat under a tree with its limp warmness huddled on her lap she had felt as if she were too full of strange joy to speak.
Therefore, the young boy will keep using his feeding bottle before graduating into the plastic cups.
The father then reportedly dropped the infant as he carried him into the kitchen to prepare his feeding bottle.
According to Amaechi, the PDP thrived on seeing government as a 'feeding bottle', and had, in three years, become hungry and desperate, hence was keen to return to government to continue embezzling the nation's treasury.
Mirza and her husband, former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik, posted a picture on their Twitter accounts of a baby vest and a feeding bottle between two T-shirts bearing their names.
He also took the feeding bottle with nipple along with the baby for using it in black magic rituals.
2006 -- Kuwaiti woman inventor Fatimah Al-Thallab was honored with a golden award by the ministry of health for innovating a feeding bottle for babies born with cleft lips.
"Recently, the Bureau of Indian Standards revised the standards for baby feeding bottle by banning polycarbonate to be used for the manufacturing of baby feeding bottle due to the assumption that polycarbonate might be having BPA (Bisphenol A) which is carcinogenic.
Mum Sarah Jane Walker, 29, of Deighton, told how she was left feeling "hysterical and distraught" after Reuben's face and shoulder were scalded after he apparently found his way through a safety gate and somehow made it upstairs to a milk kitchen where a bowl of boiling water warming a feeding bottle spilled over on him.
The BBC's tech section also reports the French dad who has designed a digital feeding bottle which adjusts its angle to ensure efficiency and transmits information on how much the baby has taken.
Armed with a cage, heat mat and miniature feeding bottle to ensure that Gary had the best possible chance of survival, Glen headed back to his home near Morpeth with his new lodger.