Cub and Kid

Cub

Cub noun - A young person who is between infancy and adulthood.

Usage example: assigned to teach a bunch of young cubs how to play baseball

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Kid and cub are semantically related in child topic. In some cases you can use "Kid" instead a noun "Cub".

Kid noun - A young person who is between infancy and adulthood.

Usage example: the fire was accidentally started by a couple of kids fooling around

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Cub and kid are semantically related in child topic. Sometimes you can use "Cub" instead a noun "Kid".

human	human cub	human kid
adorable	adorable cub	adorable kid
normal	normal cub	normal kid
short	short cub	short kid
Other adjectives: original, dead, naive, poor, small, actual, big, black, sick, innocent, young, cute, white, shy, missing, yellow, titular, last, said, eponymous.

Tagalong Kid: Toshiro, the only child survivor from Project Tatterdemalion, becomes the pack's "cub".

Source: Fan Fic / Project Tatterdemalion
In KoihimeMusou's Hot Springs Episode, Rinrin comes across a bear that she thinks is a little cub she raised when she was a kid.

Source: Bears Are Bad News
The book and film of Old Yeller has the title dog saving his humans from an angry mother bear after the youngest kid tried befriending a bear cub.

Source: Bears Are Bad News

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