pouchling
nounEtymology From pouch + -ling.
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Fantasy, Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A young creature that is raised in a pouch.
- Instead, she secretes a narcotic fluid which is designed to keep her pouchlings dormant. They will remain effectively comatose until the flow of her milk has stopped, and will only awaken and begin to grow and develop when she has died, […]2011, Arinn Dembo, The Deacon's Tale, page 301:
- The Elaki Mother-One stopped abruptly and David expected the pouchlings, following so closely, to run into her. They didn't.2015, Lynn Hightower, Alien Eyes:
- Related terms
- marsupial