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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A young swan.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A young swan; specifically, in heraldry, a small swan. Swans, when more than one are borne, are commonly called cygnets, though the representation is exactly the same as that of the swan so called.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The immature young of a swan.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A young swan.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a young swan

Etymologies

  1. Middle English cignet, from Anglo-Norman, diminutive of Old French cygne, swan, from Latin cygnus, from Greek kuknos.

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