From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishducklingduck‧ling /ˈdʌklɪŋ/ noun [countable] HBBa young duck
Examples from the Corpus
duckling• The Ahrens' 40 ducklings also died within a fortnight.• Sailed through college, picked up academic jargon like a duckling gobbles worms.• A duckling wants to swim; well there is such a thing as water.• Duck to the bar, ducklings panting to a seat.• An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs.• It's certainly the ugly duckling of the era-until you get to drive one.• A long way south a plump caique thudded past towing a line of six little lamp-boats, like a mallard with ducklings.• Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife. 