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flounderlings

flounderlings is the plural of flounderling.

Meaning of flounderling

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

Questions about flounderlings

What is flounderlings the plural of?
Flounderlings is the plural of flounderling.

Words near flounderlings in the dictionary

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

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