yearling
Other forms: yearlings
A yearling is a young horse, older than a foal but not yet two years old. Yearlings are generally too young to ride.
While the word yearling usually refers to a filly or a colt — a horse between the ages of one and two, of either sex — you can use it to talk about any animal of that age. It might sound a little funny, but go ahead and describe your one year old cat as a yearling. The word combines year, from the Old English gear, and the diminutive suffix -ling, which is often used in words describing young animals, like gosling and duckling.
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a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth
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an animal in its second yeartype of:eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammalmammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
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a young child
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