What is "cubs"

Usage examples of "cubs".

Then she visualized Shimm with one male and cubs, asking if this was a life unit.

The cubs, who have been restrained by their life unit, are released to seek out the searfruit.

The life units and we Lucents follow the cubs into the labyrinth, for their obsession renders them vulnerable to the ravenous torlen.

When the cubs are able to integrate their minds and bodies at a new level of awareness they become Changelings.

I should eat the searfruit after the cubs have become Changelings, would you help me?

The valley appeared to explode as the cubs were released to seek the searfruit.

At first Selena thought that Shimm had outdistanced the other life units, but then she realized that the Changelings were stationing themselves along the passageway to sec that the cubs came to no harm.

Oblivious, the cubs continued to feed until convulsions overcame them as the searfruit began its work.

The torlen had reached two cubs and were swiftly stripping the defenseless flesh from their bodies.

One by one the cubs recovered and left the labyrinth with their parents, until only the injured cub lay upon the damp rocky floor.

To conceive, raise, and control two cubs takes the total effort of four Changelings.

The cubs themselves do not become fertile until four Great Cycles after their Awakening.

Thus, though we are fertile, no life unit has more than two cubs every eight cycles.

Yet every Great Cycle the earth shifts, killing and crippling more adults than there are cubs to replace them.

If more food were available, more cubs could be raised, but would they survive the treacherous movements of Change?