Definitions for foalfoʊl

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

foalfoʊl(n.)

  1. the nursing young of any mammal of the horse family.

    Category: Mammals, Dogs, Cats, and Horses

  2. (v.t.)to give birth to (a colt or filly).

    Category: Mammals, Dogs, Cats, and Horses

Origin of foal:

bef. 950; ME fole, OE fola; c. OS fola, OHG folo, ON foli

Princeton's WordNet

  1. foal(verb)

    a young horse

  2. foal(verb)

    give birth to a foal

    "the mare foaled"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. foal(noun)ʊl

    a young horse

Wiktionary

  1. foal(Noun)

    A young (male or female) horse, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

  2. foal(Verb)

    To give birth; to bear offspring.

  3. Origin: fola, from fulô, from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from pōlH- ‘animal young’ (compare πώλος, Latin pullus, pelë ‘mare’, ‘kid, fawn’).

Webster Dictionary

  1. Foal(noun)

    the young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly

  2. Foal(u)

    to bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass

  3. Foal(u)

    to bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind


Translations for foal

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

foal(noun)

a young horse.

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