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floodlet

floodlet noun: a small flood.

Noun

floodlet (plural floodlets)

  1. A small flood.
    • This flood, or rather floodlet, was a veritable godsend, because it cleaned the river bed of the accumulated dirt of months and washed away great quantities of insect life which make the trout decline the angler's lure.1937, Alexander Wanless, Rods on Fast Rivers: An Angling Survey, page 83

Forms of floodlet

pluralfloodlets

Origin of floodlet

From flood + -let.

Questions about floodlet

What does floodlet mean?
Floodlet means a small flood.
What part of speech is floodlet?
Floodlet is a noun.
What is the plural of floodlet?
The plural of floodlet is floodlets.

Words near floodlet in the dictionary

  1. floodlamps
  2. floodland
  3. floodlands
  4. floodless
  5. floodlessness
  6. floodlet
  7. floodlets
  8. floodlight
  9. floodlighted
  10. floodlighting
  11. floodlights

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