broodlet

English

Etymology

From brood +‎ -let.

Noun

broodlet (plural broodlets)

1. A member of a brood.
   • 1864, William rounseville Alger, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (page 578)

     As in the old myth the pelican, hovering over her dead broodlets, pierced its own breast in agony and fluttered there until by the fanning of its wings above them and the dropping of its warm blood on them they were brought to life again, […]