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a child
childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever.
boyThere's a new boy in my class.
girlThe girl's name is Sally.
kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school.
kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair.
little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now.
biology specialized
a young animal that is not yet fully grown:
The marsh protects fish eggs and juveniles that need to evade predators until they can mature and move into open water.

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Young people
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boyhood
emo
laddishness
larrikin
mall rat
minor
ned
skinhead
Teddy boy
teen
teenager
teenybopper
tween
youngster
youth
youth culture
yute

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Animal young

juvenile | American Dictionary

juvenile
adjective
 esp. lawus/ˈdʒu·vəˌnɑɪl, -nəl/
of, by, or for a young person who is not yet an adult:
He studied both adult and juvenile crime.

Examples of juvenile

juvenile
However, juveniles showed a larger variation in the upwards heaving of the chest sac.
In fledged juveniles testosterone would mainly induce the oblique and forward display.
In other respects, however, first estrus in juveniles is similar to pheromone-induced estrus in adults.
We find that very often policymakers do not choose to fund prevention methods that can benefit juveniles in general, and taxpayers and citizens in particular.
In both the juveniles and infants, the caudatelesioned monkeys were impaired on both spatial delayed response and alternation relative to age-matched controls.
Therefore, juveniles should show flexible predation behaviour on thrips larvae depending on spider mite availability.
Although still significant at 5 days, the percent hatch inhibition was reduced slightly, suggesting decreased serotonin potency, allowing partial recovery of the affected pre-hatch juveniles.
Many fourth and fifth stage juveniles may be available to resume final development to maturity.
From days 2 -7, both infected and uninfected juveniles had survival rates of greater than 80%.
In the latter case, the juveniles are actively foraging and feeding on the grain beetles and other insects serving as intermediate hosts.
A description, based on scanning electron microscopy observations, of the lateral field pattern of the third-stage infective juveniles is also provided.
The first two classes correspond to juveniles, the following three to adults.
Samples collected in other management areas show significant differences in prevalence between juveniles and adults, although some of these are rather surprising.
The age distribution in our test population differed substantially from that of the population at large, with juveniles aged less than 20 years strongly overrepresented.
Hence, it is suggested that juveniles fed further offshore than did larvae, so competition for food is seemingly alleviated by space budgeting.
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