eaglet

Everyday

1. A young eagle, still a baby or chick. tree →
2. In Alice in Wonderland, the Eaglet is a young bird in the pool of tears and the Caucus-race who tells the Dodo to «Speak English!» because it does not understand his long words. tree →

In the lessons

The ending -let means small, as in piglet, booklet, droplet. In science lessons, eaglets hatch from eggs in a big nest called an eyrie and are fed by both parents until they can fly. In Alice the Eaglet stands for Alice's sister Edith; the Dodo is Carroll himself.

Examples

• The eaglet waited in the nest for its mother. tree →
• «Speak English!» said the Eaglet. tree →
• Eaglets are covered in soft grey down. tree →
• Two eaglets hatched in the eyrie this spring. tree →
• The eaglet flapped its wings for the first time. tree →
• The webcam shows the eaglets being fed. tree →
• "The young eaglet!" cried the miller. tree →

Note

Use «an eaglet» (starts with a vowel sound). Baby animal words: eaglet, owlet, duckling, cygnet, fawn, cub.