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demoiselle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun demoiselle has 2 senses
- demoiselle(n = noun.person) damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel - a young unmarried woman; Array is a kind of maid, maiden
- demoiselle(n = noun.animal) damselfish - small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs; Array is a kind of percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
is a member of family pomacentridae, pomacentridae
has particulars: beaugregory, pomacentrus leucostictus, anemone fish, abudefduf saxatilis, sergeant major
OXFORD DICTIONARY
demoiselle, n.
1 Zool. a small crane, Anthropoides virgo, native to Asia and N. Africa.
2 a a damselfly. b a damselfish.
3 archaic a young woman.
1 Zool. a small crane, Anthropoides virgo, native to Asia and N. Africa.
2 a a damselfly. b a damselfish.
3 archaic a young woman.
Etymology
F, = DAMSEL
ROGET THESAURUS
demoiselle
Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
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