duckling

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Related topics: Birds

duck·ling /ˈdʌklɪŋ/ noun [countableC]

HBBa young duck 小鸭，幼鸭

Examples from the Corpus

duckling• The Ahrens' 40 ducklings also died within a fortnight.• Sailed through college, picked up academic jargon like a duckling gobbles worms.• A duckling wants to swim; well there is such a thing as water.• Duck to the bar, ducklings panting to a seat.• An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.• It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.• A long way south a plump caique thudded past towing a line of six little lamp-boats, like a mallard with ducklings.• Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.

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BNC: 20442 COCA: 21663

duckling

Young birds: cockerel, cygnet, duckling...