Alien
Foundling
Foundling noun - A child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown.
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Synonyms for Foundling
Alien and foundling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alien" instead a noun "Foundling".
Nearby Word: founding
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She adopted a foundling to replace her own lost child, and she cares for an alien robot like he was a member of the family.
Source: Cool Old Lady -
Word Girl gets double points for being a generically-brown girl adopted by a different-color-of generically-brown (a redder shade) family, nothing about whom seems ethnic in any specific way (last name being Botsford), and possibly another half-point for actually being a Human Alien foundling.
Source: Ambiguously Brown
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