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foundlings
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n. (plural of foundling English)
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In the Noon Universe created by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the foundlings are a group of 13 humans, who evolved out of the embryos stored in the "sarcophagus". The embryos were discovered on December 26, 2137 by Boris Fokin's group of explorers on an unnamed planet in star system EN-9173. These events are described in the novel Beetle in the Anthill.
Usage examples of "foundlings".
Poor planetary foundlings, they have known hard treatment at the hands of the brute forces of nature, from the control of which they are soon to be set free.
If you do not like the expression planetary foundlings, I have no objection to your considering the race as put out to nurse.
Beyond the yew hedges lay the walled garden, and there, in a sheltered comer beside the thyme and the mint, were the hutches for her foundlings that kind Mr.