mooseling
mooseling noun: a small, young, or baby moose.
Noun
mooseling (plural mooselings)
- A small, young, or baby moose.
- Gently, with a hand on its furry neck, the three- or four-day-old mooseling was towed back to the shore where the distraught mother was thrashing and stomping among the trees.1915, Ruth Kedzie Wood, The Tourist's Maritime Provinces, Dodd, Mead, p. 42 (Google snippet view)
- [M]oose and man are alike as caring parents, and the beast's tragedy, which the man has caused, smites the man's conscience and strengthens his resolve to be a good parent to mooseling as well as child.1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, →ISBN, page 198
- Synonyms:
- calf
Synonyms of mooseling
Forms of mooseling
| plural | mooselings |
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Origin of mooseling
From moose + -ling.
Questions about mooseling
- What does mooseling mean?
- Mooseling means a small, young, or baby moose.
- What part of speech is mooseling?
- Mooseling is a noun.
- What is the plural of mooseling?
- The plural of mooseling is mooselings.
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