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winterling

winterling noun: a yearling animal, typically one born in the winter.

Noun

winterling (plural winterlings)

  1. A yearling animal, typically one born in the winter.
    • Under the grey skies, the rain and the sleet of January, few more cheerless scenes could be found than the moorland and the morass within it; […] Quick to accept Nature's bounty for the winterlings, the otter, when satisfied that no eye observed her, took them between her lips, carried them from...1909, Enys Tregarthen, The Life Story of an Otter
    • In the river / there are cold things: / some alive, winterlings, / hibernating in the way one sleeps in moving water, / and some stones.Tucker Lieberman, Wild Mushrooms: Poems of Change (page 11)

Forms of winterling

pluralwinterlings

Origin of winterling

From winter + -ling.

Questions about winterling

What does winterling mean?
Winterling means a yearling animal, typically one born in the winter.
What part of speech is winterling?
Winterling is a noun.
What is the plural of winterling?
The plural of winterling is winterlings.

Words near winterling in the dictionary

  1. Winterkorns
  2. Winterland
  3. winterless
  4. winterlessness
  5. winterlike
  6. winterling
  7. winterlings
  8. winterlong
  9. winterly
  10. Wintermute
  11. Wintermutes

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