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ganderlings

ganderlings is the plural of ganderling.

Meaning of ganderling

Noun

ganderling (plural ganderlings)

  1. (rare) A young gander (male goose).
    • Can any of our readers give this correspondent the name applied to a young gander? Some one has suggested that, since a young goose is a gosling (goose-ling) a young gander should be a ganderling.[1911, The Canadian Teacher, volume XVI, Toronto, Ont.: Educational Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 733, column 2

Questions about ganderlings

What is ganderlings the plural of?
Ganderlings is the plural of ganderling.

Words near ganderlings in the dictionary

  1. ganderers
  2. gandergoose
  3. gandering
  4. ganderism
  5. ganderling
  6. ganderlings
  7. gandermooner
  8. gandermooners
  9. ganders
  10. Gandhara
  11. Gandharan

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