- a variation of nursling.
nurseling
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This is puericulture, and includes everything that is being done for the supervision, protection, and assistance of the mother and nurseling.
From Mentally Defective Children by Alfred Binet
"Someone ill in the bush?" said the astonished Brownie, patting her nurseling.
From A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce
"If I should, be assured I will mourn for you as the nurseling for his nurse!"
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
But digestion took place a year ago; and since that distant epoch, the nurseling, now an adult insect, has changed its shape, its dwelling, its mode of life.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
I give the nurseling, which is an Anthrax-eater, a young Phaneroptera.
From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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