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yearling
CIDE DICTIONARY
yearling, n. [Year + -ling.].
An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses. [1913 Webster]
yearling, a.
Being a year old. Pope. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
yearling, n. & adj.
--n.
1 an animal between one and two years old.
2 a racehorse in the calendar year after the year of foaling.
--adj.
1 a year old; having existed or been such for a year (a yearling heifer).
2 intended to terminate after one year (yearling bonds).
--n.
1 an animal between one and two years old.
2 a racehorse in the calendar year after the year of foaling.
--adj.
1 a year old; having existed or been such for a year (a yearling heifer).
2 intended to terminate after one year (yearling bonds).
THESAURUS
yearling
Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, babe, baby, baby bunting, bambino, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bison, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dogie, heifer, hornless cow, incubator baby, infant, kine, leppy, little angel, little darling, maverick, mewling infant, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, neat, neonate, nursling, ox, oxen, papoose, preemie, premature baby, preschooler, puling infant, steer, stirk, stot, suckling, toddler, weanling, wisent, yak, zebuROGET THESAURUS
yearling
Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.For further exploring for "yearling" in Webster Dictionary Online