A leveret is a baby bunny?? who knew?? not me ??A polliwog is a baby Frog--that I knew - sang about it in my toddler days .
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A smolt is a young salmon in the midst of its first migration from fresh water into the sea.WHAT??
A hatchling is a baby gator??
A fledgling is any young bird
A shoat is a young pig that has recently been weaned off of its mother's milk and onto solid food. (all those farm years never knew it )I called them piglets??
A baby oyster is a spat .Are you kidding me right now??
A nymph is a young insect.I think I learned that in science and never used it .
An eyas is a young nestling hawk or falcon.what what ??
Who makes this stuff up? I've been thinking about baby ticks lately: NYMPHs, which I thought were beautiful wood spirits, like forest mermaids.
ReplyDeleteThey say words are invented as we need them Why did we need these? I'll just go with "baby *"
ReplyDeleteI knew a few of these (the common ones!) but: Jellyfish? Alpaca? Oyster????
ReplyDeleteI knew cygnet from Trumpet of the Swan
ReplyDeleteThat was educational. I knew some of those, but not all of them. We called them piglets, too!
ReplyDeleteVery interesting 13! The baby alpaca is adorable! And, though I knew piglets were stoats, I think it's an English term. Nymphs are usually water born larval like forms that transform into adults and are similar to a moth or butterfly larval stage.
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