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hand-rear
(hand-rear)
verb
[
with object
]
(of a person) feed and care for (a young animal) until it is fully grown:
the baby gorillas were hand-reared by zookeepers after being rejected by their mothers
(as adjective
hand-reared
)
hand-reared pheasants
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