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ducklet

ducklet noun: a small duck or duckling.

Noun

ducklet (plural ducklets)

  1. A small duck or duckling.
    • Immediately there was a spurt of water, the flash of a quickening body - and that was the ducklet as he dived away to join his mates!1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 148
    1. (strictly) A young female duck.
      • The copulatory organ looks like a pinkish root tip and its presence denotes a drakelet. In the cloaca of a ducklet no such organ can be seen.1932, The Harper Adams Utility Poultry Journal, volume 17, page 553

Synonyms of ducklet

Forms of ducklet

pluralducklets

Origin of ducklet

From duck + -let.

Questions about ducklet

What does ducklet mean?
Ducklet means a small duck or duckling.
What part of speech is ducklet?
Ducklet is a noun.
What is the plural of ducklet?
The plural of ducklet is ducklets.

Words near ducklet in the dictionary

  1. duckish
  2. duckism
  3. duckkind
  4. duckless
  5. ducklessness
  6. ducklet
  7. ducklets
  8. ducklike
  9. duckling
  10. ducklings
  11. ducklips

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