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- noun Plural form of
cygnet .
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Examples
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Young swans are called cygnets, and are at first quite grey or light brown; they do not become perfectly white until the beginning of the third year.
Mamma's Stories about Birds Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley 1858
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MacNeil said someone spotted the male swan swimming with three offspring, called cygnets, but did not see the female.
FOXNews.com 2010
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It comes with swans Caesar and Cleopatra and their four newly hatched cygnets, as well as five peacocks.
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The other adult was paying close attention, while the cygnets floated nearby.
The Swans Chris Belden 2011
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Soon all sorts of animals made their presence known: otters, raccoons, swans with a train of little cygnets behind them.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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The cygnets, played by men in drag, are fairly inane the Trocks do it much better.
Swan Lake – review 2011
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The swans floated blithely away, toward the middle of the lake, followed by the four surviving cygnets.
The Swans Chris Belden 2011
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Last week we'd seen a family of swans there, the upright, imperial parents and their five little cygnets.
The Swans Chris Belden 2011
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Looking out at the lake, I noted how odd it was, all this violence going on beneath such a clear blue sky, the trees rustling gently in the breeze, the other water birds—the geese, the ducks, even the remaining cygnets—calmly floating on the lake's surface.
The Swans Chris Belden 2011
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The family of swans floated about fifty feet out, the parents side by side, the cygnets close by.
The Swans Chris Belden 2011
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