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Foal Common

Foal has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

a young horse

2

A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

Verb
1

give birth to a foal

"the mare foaled"

2

To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
young mammal give birth
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
filly colt

Origin

The word "foal" comes from Old English and originally meant a young animal. It is related to words in many other languages that also refer to young creatures like calves or lambs.

Rhyming Words
boal coal goal toal shoal skoal recoal seacoal in goal no goal subgoal nongoal sea coal gas coal day coal charcoal non goal own goal antigoal entozoal
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