gosling

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++gos·ling /ˈɡɒzlɪŋ $ ˈɡɑːz-, ˈɡɒːz-/ noun [countable]  HBPa young goose 小鹅，幼鹅

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gosling• Some go around shaking the eggs to kill the embryo goslings.• The geese moved in, felt at home, laid eggs - and a most satisfactory twenty-four goslings hatched that year.• It is only when intrusive ethologists steal and hatch eggs that the wide tolerance of the goslings is revealed.• Then we see the goslings in the spring.• Adult greylag geese were more aloof and watched anxiously as their goslings joined in the competition for food.• Their goslings never learned how to migrate, and their descendants live on.• He could even remember the time he picked out six yellow goslings from a box kept warm by a light bulb.Origin gosling (1400-1500) goose

gos·ling nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus a young goose

gosling
gos‧ling /ˈɡɒzlɪŋ $ ˈɡɑːz-, ˈɡɒːz-/ noun [countable]a young goose

gos·lingBrE /ˈɡɒzlɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡɑːzlɪŋ/ 🔊 nouna young goose (= a bird like a large duck ) 小鹅；幼鹅