cadell

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin catellus. Compare Occitan cadèl and cadèu, French chiot (Old French chael), Italian catello, Romanian cățel.

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Noun[edit]

cadell m (plural cadells)

  1. cub (young of various animals)
    • 2016 October, “Un home sobreviu a l'atac d'una ossa i mostra les ferides”, in El Periódico[1]:
      L'home explica en el vídeo que fent senderisme per la muntanya es va trobar una ossa i dos cadells.
      The man explains in the video that while hiking in the mountain, he found a bear and her two cubs.
  2. ratchet, catch
  3. tonguing plane
  4. European mole cricket
  5. (in the plural) water lily
    Synonyms: nimfea, nenúfar
  6. (in the plural) spiny cocklebur (Xanthium spinosum)
    Synonym: espina-xoca
  7. (historical) a member of one of the two factions into which Catalan nobility were divided during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They were opposed by the nyerros
    Synonym: robuster

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