Usually means: Young birds learning to fly.
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  1. fledglings: Merriam-Webster
  2. fledglings: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fledglings: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fledglings, fledglings: Wordnik
  5. fledglings: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fledglings: Wiktionary
  7. fledglings: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. fledglings: Dictionary.com

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  1. fledglings: Legal dictionary

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  1. fledglings: Encyclopedia

(Note: See fledgling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fledgling)

adjective:  Untried or inexperienced.
adjective:  Emergent or rising.
noun:  A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings).
noun:  An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago.
noun:  (figuratively) An immature, naïve or inexperienced person.
▸ Also see fledgling


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