broodling

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noun

a member of a brood, as of animals

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Meanings

nounbroodling (plural broodlings)

plural broodlings

  1. a member of a brood, as of animals

    And the black duck unfearing leads/Her broodling from the sheltering reeds.

    1895, John Bernard O'Hara, The White Man, and Other Poems, 2nd edition, London: Ward, Locke & Bowden, Songs of the South, part IV, stanza 7, line 10, page 174
  2. literaturea member of a brood in science fiction

Origin

From brood + -ling.

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APA

broodling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/broodling

MLA

“broodling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/broodling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “broodling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/broodling.

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