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winterlings

winterlings is the plural of winterling.

Meaning of winterling

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

Questions about winterlings

What is winterlings the plural of?
Winterlings is the plural of winterling.

Words near winterlings in the dictionary

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

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