- a variation of nursling.
nurseling
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Probably the hen who has reared a duckling and sees it sail off into the water experiences, alongside her natural apprehension and astonishment, a somewhat similar pride in the startling proclivities evinced by her nurseling.
From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret
Here certainly is a quarry which, were it active and capable of wriggling and biting, would expose the nurseling to terrible attacks.
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
They were outside Magda's dressing-room by this time, and Virginie, who had flown to her nurseling the moment the dance was at an end, opened the door in response to Lady Arabella's preemptory knock.
From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret
I give the nurseling, which is an Anthrax-eater, a young Phaneroptera.
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
The first idea that presents itself and the only one, I think, that can present itself is that the larva, the carnivorous nurseling, has its preferences, or we had better say its exclusive tastes.
From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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