Eaglet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The immature young of an eagle; an eagle chick.

    "He [Christopher North] speaks in his "Second Canticle" of "the imps," "the eaglets," "the young ones," "the bursting of the shells," as though it were the commoner occurrence for there to be several eaglets in a nest. This is not the case."

  2. 2
    a young eagle wordnet

Synonyms

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birdchickcygnetdoveeaglefledgling

Example

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"An eaglet can fall out of its nest before it learns to fly."

Etymology

From eagle + -let (diminutive suffix).

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