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duckling

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duck·ling  (dklng)
n.
A young duck.

duckling
Noun
a young duck
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.ducklingduckling - flesh of a young domestic duck      
duck - flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
2.duckling - young duck
duck - small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
Translations
duckling [ˈdʌklɪŋ] npatito
duckling [ˈdʌklɪŋ] ncaneton m
duckling [ˈdʌklɪŋ] duck nEntenküken nt;
(Culin) → (junge) Ente f
duckling [ˈdʌklɪŋ] nanatroccolo


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Aurelia could have understood the feeling of a narrow-minded and conventional hen who has brought a strange, intrepid duckling into the world; but her situation was still more wonderful, for she could only compare her sensations to those of some quiet brown Dorking who has brooded an ordinary egg and hatched a bird of paradise.
In the meantime, outside the palace walls, the poor White Duck swam up and down the pond; and near it laid three eggs, out of which there came one morning two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake.
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen
 
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