Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a chick; a very young bird; a nestling: applied to any bird in the down, or before it has acquired its first full feathering.
- noun In zoology, the young (embryonic or larval) condition of any animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.
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- noun zoology A
chick ; a youngbird in thedowny stage.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Perhaps "erasing your bookmark" is yet another euphemism for "foffing off," and the commenter is actually posting in flagrante suffoco pullus.
Keeping Up Appearances: Filling the House, Clearing the Bike Lane BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Great men are most part thus affected all, as a horse they neigh, saith [6082] Jeremiah, after their neighbours 'wives, — ut visa pullus adhinnit equa: and if they be in company with other women, though in their own wives' presence, they must be courting and dallying with them.
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He constantly puts baceolus for stultus, pullejaceus for pullus, vacerrosus for cerritus, vapide se habere for male, and betizare for languere, which is commonly called lachanizare.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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He constantly puts baceolus for stultus, pullejaceus for pullus, vacerrosus for cerritus, vapide se habere for male, and betizare for languere, which is commonly called lachanizare.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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'Moat-cock' would be prettier, and characteristic; for in the old English days they used to live much in the moats of manor-houses; mine is the name nearest to the familiar one; only note there is no proper feminine of 'pullus,' and I use the adjective 'pulla' to express the dark color.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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Magis quod magis is sanus amo puer quisnam fletus lupus vel pullus parum.
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This may sound like odd advice, but it makes sense if you know that "pullulate" traces ultimately to the Latin noun "pullus," which means not only "sprout," but also "young of an animal" and, specifically,
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_Deindè pullus Aquilæ nidificabit in summo rupium, nec juvenis occidetur, nec ad senium perveniet.
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641
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