Thesaurus:youngling
English
Noun
Sense: a young non-human animal
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- baby [⇒ thesaurus]
- juvenile
- infant
- orphan
- whelp
- yearling
- —
- calf
- fawn
- hogget
- kid
- lamb
- poddy
- yeanling
- —
- colt
- filly
- foal
- —
- cria
- —
- cub
- kitten
- kitty
- lion cub
- tiger cub
- —
- bull-pup
- kit
- pup
- puppy
- —
- bearcub
- bear-whelp
- —
- joey
- puggle
- —
- piglet
- —
- bunny
- leveret
- —
- frogling
- hatchling
- polliwog
- snakelet
- tadpole
- —
- chick
- cygnet
- dovelet
- duckling
- doveling
- eaglet
- eyas
- fledgling
- gosling
- nestling
- piper
- squab
- swanling
- —
- crablet
- cuttlet
- ephyrae
- fry
- leptocephalus
- nauplius
- nymph
- parr
- pluteus
- smolt
- spat
- littleneck
- zoea
- —
- caterpillar
- larva [⇒ thesaurus]
Holonyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
- Category:Baby animals
- Thesaurus:animal
- Thesaurus:child
- Thesaurus:female animal
- Thesaurus:pregnant
Further reading
- “129. infant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “youngling” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.