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flounderling

flounderling noun: a small or young flounder.

Noun

flounderling (plural flounderlings)

  1. A small or young flounder
    • On such an one I came
      All inadvertently,
      Splashing the shallows
      Where Atlantic ebb
      Was making bare
      The flats,
      As when one
      Wading
      Sets unguarded step
      Upon a lurking
      Flounderling.1918, Richard Darwin Ware, Rediscoveries, page 102
    • At first flounderlings are thin-bodied but typically fishlike in other respects. Then suddenly striking anatomical changes take place, and the creature's behavior becomes fixed for an essentially two-dimensional way of life.1979, John L. Culliney, The forests of the sea: life and death on the Continental Shelf, page 90

Forms of flounderling

pluralflounderlings

Origin of flounderling

From flounder + -ling.

Questions about flounderling

What does flounderling mean?
Flounderling means a small or young flounder.
What part of speech is flounderling?
Flounderling is a noun.
What is the plural of flounderling?
The plural of flounderling is flounderlings.

Words near flounderling in the dictionary

  1. floundering
  2. flounderingly
  3. flounderings
  4. flounderish
  5. flounderlike
  6. flounderling
  7. flounderlings
  8. flounders
  9. flour
  10. flour beetle
  11. flour beetles

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