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# gosling

«gosling» in Mova's school dictionary: **A baby goose** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a gosling, goslings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A baby goose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#m1)

2) (rare) A young, silly or inexperienced person. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nature and farm stories and lessons on animal babies (duckling, cygnet, gosling). Phrases: fluffy goslings, a goose and her goslings.

### examples

- The goose led her goslings down to the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x1)
- Goslings are covered in soft yellow fluff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x2)
- We saw six goslings at the park in spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x3)
- A baby duck is a duckling and a baby goose is a gosling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x4)
- The goslings followed the farmer as if he were their mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x5)
- The gosling hid under its mother's wing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x6)
- There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x7)

### note

Plural goslings. Baby birds: duck - duckling, goose - gosling, swan - cygnet, owl - owlet. Goslings imprint: they follow the first moving thing they see.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gosling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.