nurseling

[ nurs-ling ]

/ ˈnɜrs lɪŋ /

nursling.

Words nearby nurseling

nursling

[ nurs-ling ]

/ ˈnɜrs lɪŋ /

an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.

any person or thing under fostering care, influences, or conditions.

First recorded in 1550–60; nurse + -ling¹

The pile of honey laboriously gathered by the mother will not even be broken in upon by the nurseling for which it was intended.

The Mason-bees |J. Henri Fabre
Would she be guilty of such inconceivable maternal aberration as to leave her nurseling without nourishment?

The Mason-bees |J. Henri Fabre
In a little while, the Oryctes is a noisome mass on which the nurseling lies poisoned.

More Hunting Wasps |J. Henri Fabre
But, if we trust Buchanan, she was always wandering about with Mary, while the nurseling was elsewhere.

The Mystery of Mary Stuart |Andrew Lang

I must also be careful of its legs and mandibles, the least touch of which would rip open the nurseling.

More Hunting Wasps |J. Henri Fabre

nursling

/ (ˈnɜːslɪŋ) /

a child or young animal that is being suckled, nursed, or fostered