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youngling

noun as in colt

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As the planet heats up, the ice cover shielding the nests may disappear, exposing the vulnerable younglings to predators, according to Gizmodo.

Tell me, fair child, sawest thou ever here at night-tide the shape of a youngling crowned with a garland straying about the house?

Our youngling pointed out a very respectable-looking stone house as having been "built by the Indians" about those times.

The food she brought to that eager youngling every few minutes looked like minute worms, doubtless some insect larvæ.

Nine fair children sat around their domestic hearth, and one, the youngling of the flock, smiled upon its mother's knee.

The dour recluse still there (he has his cake) and the douce youngling, minion of pleasure, Phedo's toyable fair hair.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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