mooseling

plural mooselings

1. rareA small, young, or baby moose.

   [O]ur only visitor on the whole trip was a big moose and her mooseling, more interested in nibbling the brush than bothering us.

   2010, Russell B. Hanson, “Rambling at the Edge”, in St Croix River Road Ramblings, page 50

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   Gently, with a hand on its furry neck, the three- or four-day-old mooseling was towed back to the shore where the distraught mother was thrashing and stomping among the trees.

   1915, Ruth Kedzie Wood, The Tourist's Maritime Provinces, Dodd, Mead, p. 42 (Google snippet view)

   [M]oose and man are alike as caring parents, and the beast's tragedy, which the man has caused, smites the man's conscience and strengthens his resolve to be a good parent to mooseling as well as child.

   1995, Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination, →ISBN, page 198

   Synonyms: calf