broodling

English

Etymology

brood +‎ -ling

Noun

broodling (plural broodlings)

1. a member of a brood, as of animals
   • 1895, John Bernard O'Hara, The White Man, and Other Poems‎^[1], 2nd edition, London: Ward, Locke & Bowden, Songs of the South, part IV, stanza 7, line 10, page 174:

     And the black duck unfearing leads/Her broodling from the sheltering reeds.

2. (science fiction) a member of a brood in science fiction