broodling
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broodling (plural broodlings)
- a member of a brood, as of animals
- 1895, John Bernard O'Hara, The White Man, and Other Poems[1], 2nd edition, London: Ward, Locke & Bowden, Songs of the South, part IV, stanza 7, line 10, page 174:
- And the black duck unfearing leads/Her broodling from the sheltering reeds.
- (science fiction) a member of a brood in science fiction