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yearling

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1. yearling - Noun

2. yearling - Adjective

Meaning

An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

Being a year old.

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Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

During the swim, the bear lost 22% of her body mass and her yearling cub died. citation With its body fat providing buoyancy, the bear swims in a dog paddle fashion using its large forepaws for propulsion. Source: Internet

Canadian black bear hunts take place in the fall and spring, and both male and female bears can be legally taken, though some provinces prohibit the hunting of females with cubs, or yearling specimens. Source: Internet

Correlates with body size and mass in yearling brown bears (Ursus arctos). Source: Internet

Female horn flies leave the individual cow, calf, yearling or bull to lay their eggs in fresh manure then return quickly to the same animal. Source: Internet

For instance, Oscan Viteliu (land of the male calves, compare Latin vitulus, yearling, male calf) gave rise to the Greek word Italia. Source: Internet

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