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spearlet

spearlet noun: a small spear.

Noun

spearlet (plural spearlets)

  1. A small spear.
    • While the poisonous spearlets are now directed largely against rival males, the trait could well have served among ancestral monotremes as the equivalent of a bee’s sting, to ward off the Bigfeet that ever threatened to crush them.2008 May 13, Natalie Angier, “A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family”, in New York Times

Forms of spearlet

pluralspearlets

Origin of spearlet

From spear + -let.

Questions about spearlet

What does spearlet mean?
Spearlet means a small spear.
What part of speech is spearlet?
Spearlet is a noun.
What is the plural of spearlet?
The plural of spearlet is spearlets.

Words near spearlet in the dictionary

  1. spearheading
  2. spearheads
  3. spearing
  4. spearings
  5. spearless
  6. spearlet
  7. spearlets
  8. spearlike
  9. spearmaker
  10. spearmakers
  11. spearmaking

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