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dovelings

dovelings is the plural of doveling.

Meaning of doveling

Noun

doveling (plural dovelings)

  1. A young or baby dove.
    • On one of its lower branches was fastened a dove-cote, ingeniously made of willow wands, plastered with adobe, and containing so many rooms that the whole tree seemed sometimes a-flutter with doves and dovelings.1914, Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
    Synonyms:
    dovelet, squab

Questions about dovelings

What is dovelings the plural of?
Dovelings is the plural of doveling.

Words near dovelings in the dictionary

  1. Dovel
  2. dovelet
  3. dovelets
  4. dovelike
  5. doveling
  6. dovelings
  7. Dovels
  8. dovely
  9. doven
  10. Dovenby
  11. dovened

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