sirehood

English

Etymology

From sire +‎ -hood.

Noun

sirehood (uncountable)

1. 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.