DUCKLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duckling mean? 

• DUCKLING (noun)
  The noun DUCKLING has 2 senses:

1. flesh of a young domestic duck

2. young duck

  Familiarity information: DUCKLING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUCKLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flesh of a young domestic duck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("duckling" is a kind of...):

duck (flesh of a duck (domestic or wild))

Derivation:

duck (flesh of a duck (domestic or wild))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Young duck

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("duckling" is a kind of...):

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

Derivation:

duck (small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs)

 Context examples 

The ugly duckling turned out a swan, you know. and Amy smiled without bitterness, for she possessed a happy temper and hopeful spirit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Further out still lay a great merchant-ship, high ended, deep waisted, painted of a canary yellow, and towering above the fishing-boats like a swan among ducklings.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)