broodling

noun — 2 senses

broodling

noun

Etymology From brood + -ling.

1

a member of a brood, as of animals

And the black duck unfearing leads/Her broodling from the sheltering reeds.1895, John Bernard O'Hara, The White Man, and Other Poems, 2nd edition, London: Ward, Locke & Bowden, Songs of the South, part IV, stanza 7, line 10, page 174:

2

Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction a member of a brood in science fiction

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